Trump 'more confident' of reaching Ukraine peace deal after US-Russia talks

US President Donald Trump has expressed confidence in the progress of negotiations toward a possible Ukraine peace deal following talks between US and Russian senior officials. The two country's top diplomats met in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday and agreed to establish high-level teams to continue talks to end the fighting in Ukraine. 

Trump said that Ukraine has had chances to negotiate for three years and for a long time before that, and the conflict "could have been settled very easily." Trump responded "probably" to a question on the subject as he was leaving a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. However, the officials attending Tuesday's talks said the date has not been set for a US-Russia summit.