By Tom Balmforth, Andreas Rinke, John Irish KYIV/BERLIN/PARIS (Reuters) -For Ukraine and its allies, who spent months trying to win Donald Trump over to their cause in the war started by Russia, it is back to square one.

Following years of outright conflict in Ukraine, President Donald Trump said that he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin wants peace between the two countries.

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The U.S. president says the onus is on Russia and Ukraine, not Washington, to end the war, according to a report.

President Trump said ceasefire negotiations would begin "immediately," but the Kremlin has expressed little eagerness for a ceasefire in the war it began.

In Ukraine and Gaza, host to two of the most intractable wars in the world, the president is striking out in his efforts for peace.

Nothing’s going to happen until Putin and I get together,” Donald Trump declared last week after Russia’s president failed to turn up for Ukraine peace talks in Turkey that the Kremlin had instigated.