India, Sept. 18 -- US President Donald Trump has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin "let him down" by failing to move towards peace in the Ukraine war, even as he expressed confidence that he would ultimately resolve the conflict.

At a joint press conference with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer at Chequers on Wednesday, Trump admitted that despite earlier expectations, the Russia-Ukraine conflict had not been easy to solve.

The comments come after a recent summit in Alaska where Trump urged Putin to hold talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, but no peace agreement materialised.

"Frankly, Russian soldiers are being killed at a higher rate than the Ukrainian soldiers. But, yeah, he's let me down," he added.

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