Trump says with lower oil prices, Putin is more eager to settle the Ukraine war

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Ukraine wants to settle," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday.
47% : "We've come a long way, and, it could be something will happen, but hopefully it will," Trump said.
40% : "As you know, President Putin just announced a three-day ceasefire - which doesn't sound like much but its a lot if you knew where we started from," Trump said.
37% : The Kremlin, asked on Monday about a possible meeting between Trump and Putin in Saudi Arabia, said that a meeting was necessary but that Putin had no trips to the Middle East planned for mid-May.
34% : Trump said that the number of those killed in the war was far higher than reported by most media organisations.
30% : Trump noted that Putin had proposed a three-day ceasefire to mark the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union and its allies over Nazi Germany in World War Two.
28% : Trump has said he plans to visit Saudi Arabia as early as May. Trump was asked by a reporter about whether or not he would order an investigation into the attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines in 2022.
26% : Hundreds of thousands of soldiers have been killed or injured and Trump has repeatedly said he wants to end the "bloodbath" that his administration casts as a proxy war between the United States and Russia.
26% : "They said Russia blew it up - yeah," Trump said in comments which indicated he doubted that Moscow as behind the attack.

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