After the meeting in Paris with Macron and Zelensky, Trump calls: Immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, start negotiations

US President-elect Donald Trump called for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine on Sunday, shortly after a meeting in Paris with French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, saying Kiev "would like to reach an agreement" to end the war has been going on for over 1,000 days.

In a post on his Social Truth platform, Trump wrote that Moscow and Kiev have lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers in a war that "should never have started". "There should be an immediate ceasefire and negotiations should begin. Many lives are being needlessly lost, many families are being destroyed," he said, as he called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to act to end the fighting.

Mr Trump's comments came after a meeting on Saturday with President Zelenskyy and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, which Mr Zelenskyy later described as "constructive".

Speaking to reporters later on Saturday, Mr Zelenskyy insisted that any peace deal "must be fair" to Ukrainians, "so that Russia and Putin or any other aggressor don't have the chance to come back".

In a separate update on social media on Sunday, Zelenskyy claimed that Kiev has lost 43,000 soldiers since Moscow's aggression began on February 24, 2022, while another 370,000 have been wounded.

Both Russia and Ukraine have been reluctant to release official casualty figures, but Western officials have said the past months of bitter war in eastern Ukraine have brought record losses for both sides, with tens of thousands killed and wounded each month. / VOA

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