"We will be speaking, and I think we will perhaps do something that’ll be significant," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. "We want to end that war. That war would not have started if I was president."Trump did not clarify who in his administration has been in contact with Russia but insisted that discussions were already underway. When asked if he had personally spoken with Putin, he declined to answer directly: "I don’t want to say that."He has repeatedly claimed that the war would not have started under his leadership, despite the fact that hostilities between Ukraine and Russian proxies in eastern Ukraine escalated during his presidency, leading up to Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022.Since returning to office, Trump has criticized President Volodymyr Zelensky, arguing that he should have negotiated with Putin to prevent the war.