President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with Polish President Karol Nawrocki in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025, in Washington.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday appeared confident that he will manage to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine, even though he has so far failed to convince Russian President Vladimir Putin to end his brutal war.

In a phone interview with CBS News, Trump said he expected to make progress toward his said goal of ending the three-year war but suggested that Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “are not ready yet.”

“I’ve been watching it, I’ve been seeing it, and I’ve been talking about it with President Putin and President Zelenskyy,” Trump said. “Something is going to happen, but they are not ready yet. But something is going to happen. We are going to get it done.”

Trump, once again, conceded that he underestimated how hard it would be to bring that conflict to a close, but said: “I think we’re going to get it all straightened........

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