President Donald Trump needs to immediately “put pressure” on Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine, James Gilmore, the former U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, told Newsmax Saturday.

Putin has never been willing to negotiate a deal, he told “Saturday Agenda.”

“Well, getting him to the bargaining table isn’t even the goal because he doesn’t want to come to the bargaining table for anything except a capitulation, both by Trump and by [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy,” Gilmore said, adding that there will never be a negotiated deal between Ukraine and Russia.

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