U.S. president will say “you’re fools, you’re horrible people” and walk away if Moscow or Kyiv don’t play ball.

H e promised to end the war in Ukraine within a day. Now, insiders say, Donald Trump hopes to secure a ceasefire within his first 100 days—ie, by the end of this month. He has started to refer to the conflict as “Biden’s war”. But if it drags on, he worries it will increasingly become his.

US officials indicated at a meeting with Europeans in Paris that they want to secure a full ceasefire in Ukraine within weeks, part of a renewed push to halt hostilities in Russia’s three-year war, according to people familiar with the matter.