Florida, Dec. 28 -- US President Donald Trump on Sunday said peace talks between Russia and Ukraine are in the final stages and that from here either the war will end or it will continue for a long time, as he welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for talks at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. The meeting is underway and is being seen as a key moment in efforts to bring the nearly four-year conflict to an end.

"...We're in the final stages of talking. We're going to see. Otherwise, it's going to go on for a long time. It'll either end, or it's going to go on for a long time, and millions of additional people are going to be killed, and nobody wants that," Trump said.

Speaking to reporters before the closed-door discussions began, when a...