U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Ukraine should agree a deal to end the war with Russia because “Russia is a very big power, and they’re not,” after hosting a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin that failed to yield a ceasefire.

In a major shift, Trump also said he had agreed with Putin that negotiators should go straight to a peace settlement — not via a ceasefire, as Ukraine and its European allies, until now with U.S. support, have been demanding.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would travel to Washington on Monday to discuss next steps, while Kyiv’s European allies welcomed Trump’s efforts but vowed to back Ukraine and tighten sanctions on Russia, and again urged the U.S. to offer security guarantees for Ukraine.

Trump met Putin for nearly three hours in Alaska on Friday at the first U.S.-Russia summit since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

“It was determined by all that the best way to end the horrific war between Russia and Ukraine is to go directly to a Peace Agreement, which would end the war, and not a mere Ceasefire Agreement, which often times do not hold up,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

That statement will be welcomed in Moscow, which says it wants a full settlement — not a pause — but that this will be complex because positions are “diametrically opposed.”