US President Donald Trump said Wednesday he believes Vladimir Putin wants to end the Ukraine war, despite talks between the Russian president and American negotiators ending without a deal.

Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner negotiated into the early hours with Putin in the Kremlin but reached no breakthrough for a settlement to end Europe's worst conflict since World War II.

The Kremlin said Wednesday that its army's recent battlefield successes in Ukraine had bolstered its position, adding that the two sides failed to find a "compromise" and that Kyiv's ties to NATO remained a key question.

"I thought they had a very good meeting yesterday with President Putin," Trump said when an AFP reporter asked him in the Oval Office how the negotiations had gone.

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