Trump team in talks with Biden and Ukrainian officials about ending war with Russia

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Biden's national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, has held several conversations with his named successor, Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., whom Trump has tapped to take over the position, a senior administration official and other sources familiar with the matter said.
55% : "The atmosphere thus far in terms of the engagement between the Ukrainians and the incoming Trump team, including Zelenskyy and Trump himself, has been positive," one of the sources said.
47% : The transition team declined to comment on whether a Putin ally, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, carried any message from Russia to Trump in his recent visit to Mar-a-Lago.
47% : "Trump is really serious about wanting to get to a ceasefire on day one," said a source with knowledge of the matter.
42% : But recent meetings and conversations between Zelenskyy, Trump and their advisers have been constructive, including a face-to-face meeting in Paris brokered by French President Emmanuel Macron, the sources said.
41% : But the idea was discarded after Trump won the election in November, a source with knowledge of the matter said.
38% : On Sunday, Trump wrote on social media that Zelenskyy and Ukraine were ready for a peace deal and it was time for Putin "to act.
37% : Konstantin Malofeyev, a Russian tycoon and ultra-nationalist, told the Financial Times that Putin was likely to reject a peace proposal floated months ago by Kellogg, before he was chosen by Trump to work as U.S. envoy to Ukraine.
36% : "There's a sense that Trump himself understands that the Ukrainians are not the obstacle to peace," a source said.
34% : Ukraine and its supporters in Washington and Europe had worried that Trump would return to the White House with the view that Kyiv was the main barrier to ending the war.
33% : When asked on "Meet the Press" if he were actively working to end the war, Trump said, "I am, but he declined to say if he had spoken to Putin since the November election.
31% : "I don't want to say anything about that, because I don't want to do anything that could impede the negotiation," Trump said.
21% : A Russian hardliner with close ties to the Kremlin said in recent interviews that any attempt by Trump to end the war will be doomed unless there are broader talks that address Moscow's security concerns.
21% : The Trump transition team declined to comment on how Trump views the idea of barring Ukraine from joining NATO indefinitely or for some designated period of time.
17% : The Biden administration official said it would be a grievous mistake for Trump to push for a peace deal that would bar Ukraine from becoming part of NATO for the foreseeable future.

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