Dar es Salaam, April 4 -- THE leaders of Russia and Ukraine are ready to make a peace deal, US President Donald Trump claimed on Thursday. He has been trying to broker a ceasefire between the two neighbors since February.

A reporter asked Trump on Air Force One about his communication with Ukraines Vladimir Zelensky. “I think hes ready to make a deal. And I think that [Russian] President [Vladimir] Putin is ready to make a deal,” Trump said. He declined to go into specifics but added that the US is having “a lot of good conversations about Ukraine and Russia.”

“We like to see [the conflict] stopped as soon as possible because thousands of people have been killed in a week,” Trump s...