Once he takes office, President-elect Donald Trump will move to quickly end Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war, according to Kurt Volker, former special envoy to Ukraine.

Volker, who handled negotiations between Ukraine and Russia from 2017 to 2019 during Trump’s first term, told the Kyiv Independent that Trump will “make a phone call to Putin as quickly as possible” and tell the Russian leader “he needs to stop the war.”

Given Trump’s frequent criticism of Washington’s financial support of Kyiv, it is uncertain what his return to the White House means for the future of continued U.S. aid to the embattled nation.

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