The move means Trump is walking back the 50-day deadline he set this month in response to Russia's continued bombing of Ukrainian cities.

Kyiv and Moscow have held three rounds of talks in Istanbul this year that yielded exchanges of prisoners and bodies.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham stated that US President Donald Trump seeks peace, not conflict with Russia. At the same time, he advised the Kremlin not to mess around with the American leader, according to a post on Graham’s account on social platform X.