President Donald Trump said that he is not hopeful for a peace agreement in the short term after a phone call yesterday wtih his Russian counterpart and that they might have to just "keep fighting" until they're unable to go on,

But the extraordinary operation got a different response inside the White House: anger. Donald Trump has openly vented in recent weeks about Putin’s unwillingness to end the war. But since Sunday’s attack,

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz encouraged the president in an Oval Office meeting to help end the war.