In the first days of May, the leaders of the US and Ukraine, as well as the head of the Kremlin, made several statements about the war. Donald Trump essentially admitted that peace might be unattainable,

Pence told CNN that the Russian president "only understands power" and that the U.S. should maintain its support for Kyiv against Russian aggression. Ukraine has agreed to a U.S.-

U.S. President Donald Trump said Moscow and Kyiv want to settle the war in Ukraine and that Russian President Vladimir Putin was more inclined towards peace after the recent fall in the price of oil.