US President-Elect Donald Trump has said that he is developing a concept to put an end to the "ridiculous" conflict in Ukraine.
"I’m formulating a concept of how to end that ridiculous war," Trump told The New York Post.
Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky wants peace and a ceasefire, Trump added. "He wants to have a ceasefire ... He wants to make peace. We didn’t talk about the details. He thinks it’s time," the President-elect said.
Earlier, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, commenting on Trump's stated intention to end the Ukraine crisis on his first day as US president, called the conflict too complex a problem to solve in one day.
In June, Russian President Vladimir Putin put forward initiatives for a peaceful settlement of the conflict in Ukraine: Moscow will immediately cease fire and declare its readiness for negotiations after the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the territory of Russia's new regions.
The Russian leader also said Kiev must abandon its plans to join NATO, it must carry out demilitarization and denazification, and also adopt a neutral, non-aligned and non-nuclear status. Putin also mentioned in this context the lifting of sanctions against Russia.