Trump made the statement at a joint press conference with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, according to Bloomberg.“One of them (Russia’s war against Ukraine – ed.), which I thought would be the easiest (to resolve) because of my relationship with President Putin, but he let me down, he really let me down,” Trump said.He added that the Kremlin leader “is killing a lot of people and losing more people than he kills.”“Frankly, more Russian soldiers are dying than Ukrainian,” the U.S. president said.At the same time, Starmer said Putin had “shown his true face,” and stressed that Washington and London are working together to end the war in Ukraine.On September 14, Trump stated that Russia is the aggressor in the war against Ukraine. This was one of his harshest assessments of Moscow during his presidency.