The US president said Zelensky ‘has to make a deal’ and refused to criticise Putin for stalling peace talks

Donald Trump has said that it “takes two to tango” as the prospect of talks between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky to end the war in Ukraine appeared to have reached a dead end.

Speaking to reporters before boarding Air Force One for a state visit to the UK, the US President said Zelensky “has to make a deal” and refused to blame Moscow for a failure to make progress in peace talks.

“It takes two to tango. Those are two people, Zelenskyy and Putin, that hate each other, and it looks like I have to sit in the room with them, because they can’t sit in a room together. There’s great hatred there,” he said.

After meeting with Putin in Alaska last month, Trump said he would press for the Russian president to meet Zelensky as a prelude to a trilateral summit. No talks have been scheduled between the two sides since and both leaders insist that the preconditions for such a meeting do not exist.

Earlier on Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has hinted that President Trump and President Zelensky could meet in New York next week as the UN General Assembly gathers for its annual high-level session.

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