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President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, has said he trusted Russian President Vladimir Putin to stick to any Ukraine ceasefire.

He stated this on Thursday, while speaking with the British Prime minister, Keir Starmer, who was in the US to try to win security guarantees for Ukraine.

During the meeting in Washington, the US leader’s recent comment about calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a dictator was mentioned and he replied saying: “Did I say that?”

However, Trump insisted that Putin was to be trusted to honor any truce with Ukraine in contradiction to Starmer’s warnings that a lack of a US “backstop” for a deal would encourage the Russian leader to stage a repeat of his February 2022 invasion.

“I think he’ll keep his word,” Trump told reporters as he sat alongside Starmer in the Oval Office when asked about Putin.

“I spoke to him, I’ve known him for a long time now, I don’t believe he’s going to violate his word.”

Trump added that Britain can “take care of themselves, but if they need help, I’ll always be with the British.”

Starmer had said on the plane to the US capital that a “ceasefire without a backstop” would let Putin “wait and to come again” at Kyiv.

The British premier told Trump at the White House that he wanted to “work with you to make sure that peace deal is enduring” but that it was also a “deal that nobody breaches.”

Starmer then handed Trump — a long-term fan of Britain’s royals — a letter from King Charles III inviting him for an unprecedented second state visit by a US president.

“This has never happened before, this is unprecedented,” said Starmer.

The fears among European leaders intensified last week when Trump called Zelensky a “dictator without elections” — but with Starmer at his side, Trump jokingly downplayed the jibe.

“Did I say that? I can’t believe I said that,” Trump responded when asked whether he stood by the comment he made on his Truth Social network. “Next question.”

Trump will host Zelensky at the White House on Friday.