During a briefing with reporters at the Oval Office of the White House Thursday, US President Donald Trump shared his thoughts on the prospects for negotiations to end the Ukrainian war.

"I think what’s going to happen is Ukraine wants to make a deal because I don’t think they have a choice,” Trump said, the BBC reports. “I also think that Russia wants to make a deal because in a certain different way—a different way that only I know, only I know—they have no choice.”

But he did not explain his aforesaid point.