President Trump said Thursday that Russia would be making a concession toward peace if it agrees not to take over Ukraine, as the U.S. president has struggled to negotiate even a limited ceasefire deal between Moscow and Kyiv.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office during a meeting with Norway's prime minister, Trump was asked what concessions Russia has "offered up thus far to get to the point where you're closer to peace."

"Stopping the war, stopping from taking the whole country, pretty big concession," Trump responded.

Ukraine's military succeeded in stopping Russian forces from taking over the capital Kyiv in the first, fraught days of Moscow's full-scale invasion........

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