“I think we are getting very close to a deal. We will find out,” Trump said during the Thanksgiving pardoning ceremony at the White House.
“I think we are making progress,” he added.
The comments come amid reports in US media that Ukraine had "agreed" to the US plan, barring "some minor details to be sorted out."
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt cited "tremendous progress" on the draft agreement Tuesday, saying "a few delicate but not insurmountable details" remain.
Volodymyr Zelensky intends to travel to the United States to discuss the agreement with Trump before the end of the month. US and Ukrainian negotiators have "reached a common understanding on the core terms" of an agreement, a senior Ukrainian official said Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced that Russia is awaiting the US draft peace plan and indicated that it would respond to it based on its adherence to the "spirit and letter" of the understanding from the Putin-Trump summit in Alaska this past August.