President Donald Trump told reporters on Thursday (September 4) he will speak to Russia's President Vladimir Putin in the near future.

The U.S. president also said he has settled many wars but the Russia-Ukraine conflict has been the most difficult so far.

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WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (SEPTEMBER 4, 2025) (U.S. NETWORK POOL - No use USA)

1. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP DURING DINNER WITH TECH LEADERS

2. (SOUNDBITE) (English) PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, SAYING:

JOURNALIST (OFF CAMERA): "After your phone call with Ukrainian President Zelenskiy today, do you plan to speak with Russia's President Putin in the near future?"

TRUMP: "I will be, yeah. I will be. We're having a very good dialog. I settled seven wars. The one that I thought would be maybe one of the easiest. You know, that feeling. You think one thing is going to be easy, it turns out to be a little bit tougher. But the one that I thought would be an easier one because of my relationship with President Putin and with Ukraine and everything else, I thought it would be the Russia Ukraine disaster where this week 7,014 people were killed. Soldiers in most cases soldiers, a few from Kyiv, relatively few, but mostly soldiers. And they're being killed at levels that we haven't seen since World War Two. And they're not American. They're not from any of the countries that some of you are from, but they're people, they're souls, and we'll get it done. But that's turned out to be the most difficult of the group. You know, I settled three wars. One was 31 years going. A lot of people killed, 10 million people, in other words, 34. And another was 37 years it was going on, and people said, you can't settle them. And I settled them. This one turned out to be more difficult, but we'll get it, we're going to get it settled."

3. DINNER IN PROGRESS