Donald Trump has said a deal to end the war in Ukraine is "closer than ever" but has admitted that "thorny" questions over the future of the eastern Donbas region have yet to be resolved, after a two-hour meeting on Sunday with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Florida. Trump said a draft agreement to end the war was nearly "95% done." "I really think we are closer than ever with both sides," he said, adding that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, also wants to "see it happen." The US president acknowledged there were "one or two tough" outstanding issues, over territory and how the war might end and expressed sympathy with Russia not wanting a ceasefire. "You have to understand the other side," he said.