President Trump's "patience is running very thin" with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as negotiations for an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine stretch on, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Wednesday.

"The president's frustrated; his patience is running very thin," she told an impromptu gathering in the White House driveway. "He wants to do what's right for the world. He wants to see peace. He wants to see the killing stop, but you need both sides of the war willing to do that, and unfortunately, President Zelensky seems to be moving in the wrong direction."

Trump publicly blasted Zelensky in a Truth Social post earlier Wednesday, accusing the Ukrainian leader of stymieing peace talks with his remarks this week about Russia's occupation of Crimea.

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