The war in Ukraine “will not end soon,” Dan Rice, a former special adviser to the Ukrainian Armed Forces and president of American University Kyiv, told Newsmax Saturday.

The summit in Alaska earlier in the month between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin ended without any concrete pathway to peace. Trump is now openly frustrated that Putin is not open to any in-person discussions that do concede Russian territorial gains.

“I think Putin wants war. He continues to attack Ukraine at every major summit on the evening of it. That’s clearly under his directive,” Rice said on “The Count.”

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