President Donald Trump said that he is not hopeful for a peace agreement in the short term after a phone call yesterday wtih his Russian counterpart and that they might have to just "keep fighting" until they're unable to go on,

But halting progress, ever-more deadly drone attacks and unmoving negotiating positions seem to have taken their toll. On Thursday, Trump used a striking analogy to concede the warfare was nowhere near over, and that he did not, at that moment, feel it was best to intervene.

US President Donald Trump has appeared to set a two-week deadline for Vladimir Putin, threatening a different response if the Russian counterpart was still stringing him along. As the Kremlin escalated its attacks on Ukraine,