Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.Jump to contentThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inAllNewsSportCultureLifestyleDonald Trump stated that Vladimir Putin has "really let me down" by not taking steps to end the war in Ukraine. Speaking at a press conference at Chequers alongside Sir Keir Starmer, Trump believed his personal relationship with Putin would make the conflict "easiest to solve". Hopes for a peace deal did not materialise following a summit between Trump and Putin in Alaska last month, where Trump urged talks with Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump suggested Putin would "drop out" of the war if oil prices decreased and appealed to European countries to halt purchasing energy from Russia. He also claimed Putin initiated the war because he "didn't respect the leadership of the United States" at the time, implying it would not have happened under his presidency. In full‘Putin really let me down’: Trump says he thought war in Ukraine would be ‘easy to solve’Thank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in