France, Dec. 29 -- President Trump, who had promised to finish the war on day one of his presidency, said he was embarking on a year-end diplomatic sprint as he welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Floridaon Sunday.

At a joint news conference after the meeting, both leaders reported progress on two of the most contentious issues in peace talks- security guarantees for Ukraine and the division of eastern Ukraine's Donbas region that Russia has sought to capture.

Both Trump and Zelensky offered few details and did not provide a deadline for completing a peace deal. Trump said it will be clear "in a few weeks" whether negotiations to end the war will succeed. He said a few "thorny issues" around terri...