Trump: I'll tell Putin 'you've got to end this violent war'

DONALD Trump has vowed to tell Vladimir Putin to end the Ukraine war at their meeting later this week.

- By Katie Harris

The US president described the summit with his Russian counterpart in Alaska on Friday as a “feel-out meeting” for peace.

Speaking yesterday, Mr Trump said: “This is a war that should have never happened.

“A war that wouldn’t have happened if I'd been president. This is a feel-out meeting. President Putin invited me to get involved. I believe he wants to get it over with.

“I’ve said that a few times and I’ve been disappointed because I'd have a great call with him, then missiles would be lobbed into Kyiv or some other place and you'd have 60 people lying on a road dying.

“It’s a violent war, 5,000 to 7,000 people a week dying, mostly young soldiers, although in the case of Ukraine they’re getting much older. The money spent and the death is incredible. It’s the worst thing that’s happened since World War Two.