President Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin is “destroying Russia” with its nearly three-year war in Ukraine, adding he hopes the Kremlin leader is open to making a deal to end the conflict.

Trump’s incoming administration is already began tempering expectations. Earlier this month, retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, Trump’s pick to serve as the special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, walked back his boss’s bombast. “Let’s set it at 100 days,” he said, moving the goal posts for ending the conflict.

World leaders have been rushing to get on Donald Trump’s good side since his reelection as US president, arguably none more so than Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country was open to dialogue with the new Trump administration on the conflict in Ukraine, as he welcomed what he said was the president-elect's attitude toward preventing a third world war.

Kyiv region. A Russian ballistic missile strike in Ukraine's capital on the morning of January 18 killed three people and wounded three others. Dnipropetrovsk region. On the morning of January 17, a Russian missile attack on the region's second-biggest city, home to more than 500,000 residents, killed four people and wounded 14 others.

By Simon Lewis, Steve Holland and Stephanie Kelly WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday that ending Russia's war in Ukraine would be official U.S. policy under President Donald Trump,

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared that ending the war between Russia and Ukraine would become the official policy of the United States under President Donald Trump. He added that both sides—Moscow and Kyiv—must make concessions.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will begin working on a ceasefire in Ukraine "almost immediately," new U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told journalists on Jan. 20. Asked about a timeframe for ending the war,

President of the USA, Donald Trump, referred to his promise to end the war in Ukraine in one day. "I have another half a day left. We'll see.," he joked. The new Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said that each side of the conflict will have to make some concessions.