“I would be happy to be the first one to applaud his peace effort if I saw at least the slightest decrease of Russia’s aggression,” said Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s former foreign affairs minister at the JFK Jr. Forum at Harvard University as part of the annual Lamont Lecture. “But it doesn’t happen.”

Ukraine’s former foreign affairs minister Dmytro Kuleba said the Trump Administration’s recent diplomatic efforts with Russia were bound to fail in the annual Lamont Lecture at the JFK Jr. Forum Monday evening.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that talks with Russia and Ukraine on a peace deal are "very well advanced" and credited Russia for its actions in the talks, as he met with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the White House.