One of the first things Donald Trump wants to do if he is re-elected as U.S. president is to resolve the war between Russia and Ukraine, the candidate himself confirmed.

"I know President Putin very well, I know President Zelenskyy very well and I think it falls for getting it done [settling the war] and we have to get it done and get it done through strength and wisdom," he said in a short address to participants of the 20th annual YES meeting, organized by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in Kyiv on September 13-14, recorded at the request of former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on a plane en route to a campaign rally in Arizona.

Trump again stated that if he were president, Russia's war against Ukraine would never have happened.

"53 days, we have an election. It's going to make a big difference, including with respect to that war," the Republican presidential candidate said.

At a YES meeting in Kyiv, former U.S. Secretary of State during Trump's presidency Mike Pompeo said that he considers the plan to achieve peace by creating a "demilitarized zone" around the front line on Ukrainian territory with Ukraine's refusal to join NATO, voiced by Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance, to be contrary to U.S. interests.

In turn, National Security Advisor of the current U.S. President Jacob Sullivan, when asked to comment on Trump's words about the possibility of resolving the war if he is elected president before the inauguration, said that anyone who comes forward and says that they can resolve the war in Ukraine in one day from the outside should be asked on whose side they are going to resolve it.

Regarding the peace plan of possible future U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance if Trump wins, Sullivan expressed the opinion that any peace plan that they are trying to impose on the people of Ukraine - a peace that contradicts the fundamental principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity, democracy and freedom - is neither fair nor sustainable.