President Donald Trump slammed Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy, accusing him of derailing negotiations to end the war in Ukraine and saying that a peace deal was “very close.”

High-level talks aimed at bringing a pause to fighting in Ukraine disintegrated earlier in the day after Secretary of State Marco Rubio and special envoy Steve Witkoff pulled out, dealing a blow to Kyiv’s hopes for a short-term peace agreement.