Trump says he had good talks with Putin and Zelenskiy

EVIAN, France, June 17 (Reuters) - ‌President Donald ​Trump ​on Wednesday said he has had good talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President ‌Volodymyr Zelenskiy on the sidelines of the G7 ⁠meeting in France.

Zelenskiy and his European allies came to this week's ‌G7 summit in the French ‌lakeside resort of Evian-les-Bains hoping to impress upon Trump that Ukraine's battlefield fortunes had improved thanks to its ​drone incursions deep into Russia.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the meeting, Trump did not want ⁠to say if he thought Putin was more responsible for the conflict in ​Ukraine. "Well, I don't want to comment on that, because I'm trying to get it settled, and ​that doesn't make it easy."

Trump said ‌Ukraine's wish to build U.S. missiles in Europe would be considered.

“They would like to be ⁠able to do that. We'll take a look at it,” he said.

The U.S. Treasury on Wednesday did not publish an ⁠extension of its waiver of sanctions on Russian seaborne oil that ran ​out at midnight, but Trump administration officials did not immediately say whether it meant sanctions on Russian oil had been re-imposed.

Asked if ‌Russian sanctions would be re-imposed, Trump told reporters: "We are looking at that, we're seeing how ‌far the price of oil comes down, it's, it's ⁠really tumbling."

(Reporting by Steve ‌Holland and Humeyra Pamuk; ​Additional reporting by Andrea Shalal, Katharine Jackson and Timothy Gardner; Editing by Caitlin Webber and Michelle ‌Nichols )

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