Trump's efforts, piglets, Russia's secret weapon: Putin's statements at 'Results of Year'

MOSCOW, December 19. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump is making serious efforts to settle the Ukrainian conflict once and for all and is doing so with complete sincerity, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during the combined Direct Line Q&A session and year-end press conference headlined "Results of the Year."

He also explained that when he took a jab at Europeans by calling them "piglets," as the Western media translated the Russian term, he was not referring to anyone specific in Europe, but rather to a "group of people."

In addition, the Russian leader jokingly called the 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet "a Russian secret weapon" after a media question about whether it was a spaceship or an object of artificial origin in general.

TASS has compiled Putin’s key statements.

Trump is making serious efforts to make peace in Ukraine: "As he has said many times, he is doing this, in my opinion, with complete sincerity."