Russian President Vladimir Putin is in no rush to end the war amid the fissures between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Angela Stent, a former national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia.

President Trump's advisers on Saturday morning were still uncertain how to salvage a mining deal with Ukraine, which had been intended as a key first step in a Trump strategy to eventually secure a ceasefire and peace deal between Moscow and Kyiv.