Time to stop unnecessary death and destruction, Trump says after discussions with Putin and Zelenskiy

US president Donald Trump vowed throughout his presidential campaign to bring a swift end to the Ukraine war. Photograph: AP Donald Trump held lengthy phone calls with Russia's president Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday and afterwards announced "it is time to stop this ridiculous war where there has been massive and totally unnecessary death and destruction". The conversations opened the possibility of Mr Trump visiting the Russian president in Moscow or of Mr Putin travelling to the White House in what would be an extraordinary thaw in US-Russia relations. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said…