Washington, May 20 -- US President Donald Trump has claimed that he was doing the best he could with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to try and stop the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

On Tuesday, while speaking at the Kennedy Center Board Dinner Trump said that his talks with Putin is making progress.

"I'll tell you about the day- first my little conversation with a nice gentleman named Vladimir Putin. But we actually had a good talk and I think that progress is being made. 5,000 young soldiers are being killed every single week on average," he said.

Trump called the Ukraine-Russia conflict a "bloodbath".

"Can you believe? 5,000! and it's actually a number probably worse than that in addition to other people that are being killed i...