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US President Donald Trump looks next to Russian President Vladimir Putin during a press conference after the meeting to agree on the end of the war in Ukraine, in the joint base of Elmenorf-Richardson, in Ancoridge, Alaska, USA, August 15, 2025.
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President Donald Trump showed that potential Due to the cost of the hall Between Russia and Ukraine may be close on Thursday, during a press conference with the Prime Minister of the UK Keir Starmer.
“The situation with Russia, I hope we will have good news for you,” Trump said in Checkers, the Prime Minister’s residence in Eilsbury, England.
“Millions of people were killed in this war, millions of souls … They are killed, and I feel that I have a duty to settle it for that reason,” Trump said.
The President spoke with the starter after the three -day state visit to the UK, which was excited as a great success with both parties.
About Russia – and its president Vladimir Putin – However, the leaders’ comments were slightly less refined.
“He brought me down. He really failed me,” Trump said about Putin.
The Russian war in Ukraine has continued for more than three years, and the US president has not yet been able to finish it – despite many attempts at the negotiations.
During his presidential campaign 2024, Trump claimed he can end the conflict “one day“
But he confessed on Thursday that he was surprised at how difficult the war between Russia and Ukraine was resolved.
“I am very honored to tell you that we decided seven wars, seven wars, wars that were unsolvable, wars that could not be agreed and made,” he said. “The one I thought will be the easiest thing to do with my relationship with President Putin, but he brought me down.”
“Special Relations”
At a broad press conference, Starmer welcomed what he called a “unique connection” between the UK and the US
“We resumed a special relationship for the new era,” Starmer said.
US President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Kire Starmer hold a press conference after meeting in Checkers, near Eilsbury, Britain, September 18, 2025.
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“The United Kingdom, the United States today, stand together as the first defense partners, the first trade partners, with the initial transaction we touched upon in May, and now with the new agreement we have just signed today, we confirm our first partners in the field of science and technology.”
Trump repeated the mood, describing the connection between the two countries as “like no other place in the world.”
“We join forever and we are forever friends and we will always be friends.” He called this “solid connection” as the reason that the UK became the first country in the world to sign a trade agreement with the United States
With a 10% blanket tariff, which is applied to British goods imported in the US, Trump has given the UK one of the most favorable tariffs in the world.
Business deals in the area
The President’s trip also turned out to be very profitable for the UK Thursday, the country’s government announced a foreign investment worth £ 150 billion (204 billion) with key technology, energy and II agreements.
The transactions would be “Increase jobs, move growth and provide opportunities for workers up and down the country”, The government said.
Trump and Starmer held talks behind closed doors on Thursday, With events moving from Windsor Castle to Checkers Over the last day of the president’s state visit.
Leaders and their relevant delegations also met with business leaders on Thursday at a reception organized by the UK Minister of Finance, Rachel Reivz.
Earlier in the visit, the President and the First Lady Melania Trump were guests of King Charles III and Queen Camila in the Windsor Castle, where they were treated for the best of British Pompen and theatricalization. US guests were welcomed with a royal salute of weapons, a procession for transportation through Windsor and an honorary guard.
On a brilliant state banquet at Window, on Wednesday night, Trump told about the guests, which included senior royal, chief American and British officials and business executives who invited to Britain for an unprecedented second visit of the state, was one of “the highest honors of my life.”
He then lifted some laughter when he joked he hoped he would become the only president who, if he had addressed two state visits.
– CNBC Chloe Taylor contributed to this report.
