Trump Said Peace In Ukraine Is Coming Soon

• 9.11.2026, 9:29

The U.S. president also defended the diesel deal.

U.S. President Donald Trump, commenting on a future peace agreement to end the war, made an alarming suggestion that Ukraine’s borders could change as a result of the agreement. He made these remarks in an interview with CBS.

When asked whether he expects “it all to end with a free and independent Ukraine,” Trump replied that a peace deal would be reached soon and hinted at a change in borders. “I think we’ll have a deal, and I think it will happen. As a result, Ukraine will take on a slightly different shape,” he said.

Trump cited “the hatred between Zelenskyy and Putin” as the main obstacle to peace. At the same time, he reiterated that “if he were president, this war would never have started.”

Trump dodged the question of whom he trusts more—Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy or Russian dictator Vladimir Putin—stating that he has “good relations with both.” When asked whether Putin was leading him by the nose, he answered in the negative. Trump also defended his decision to approve the diesel deal.

“No one has been tougher on Russia than I have... Look at what I’ve done to them on trade, the sanctions I’ve imposed, and everything else... I didn’t lift the sanctions on diesel fuel. I allowed Russia to supply not just us, but the whole world, with thousands and thousands of barrels of oil and diesel fuel that the world needed,” he said.