U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly said during his campaign that, if elected to a second term, he would be able to end the war between Russia and Ukraine “in 24 hours.” But since his Jan. 20 inauguration, the road to a peace deal has been fraught with changing dynamics between the U.S. leader, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Trump’s rhetoric toward both Zelenskyy and Putin has evolved since the beginning of the year.

At the outset of his second term, Trump was conciliatory toward Putin, for whom he has long shown admiration. But in recent months the Republican leader has expressed increasing exasperation with Putin, while he appears to have softened toward Zelenskyy after a February blowout in the Oval Office.

And on Tuesday, he said he

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