Putin praises Trump’s peace efforts on Israel-Hamas and other conflicts

Russian President Vladimir Putin praised President Donald Trump’s efforts to broker peace deals around the world, specifically citing his work mediating a truce between Israel and Hamas.

“He is really doing a lot to resolve such complex crises that have been going on for years, even decades,” Putin said at a summit in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, where he met with the leaders of countries that were once part of the former Soviet Union.

The remarks were in response to a question about whether he thought Trump had been passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize.

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President Donald Trump welcomes Russian President Vladimir Putin Aug. 15 at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. On Friday, Putin praised Trump’s peacemaking efforts, even though he did not win the Nobel Peace Prize. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/Associated Press)

The prize was presented Friday morning to Venezuelan opposition leader and democracy activist María Corina Machado.

“There were cases when the committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to people who did nothing for peace,” Putin said. “A person comes in – good or bad – and (gets it) in a month, in two months – boom. For what? He didn’t do anything at all.

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The Nobel Committee announced the name of the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in Oslo. (Rodrigo Freitas/NTB Scanpix via AP)

“In my opinion, these decisions have caused enormous damage to the prestige of this prize,” he continued.

In September, Trump hinted at the likelihood that he would be passed over for the Nobel Prize again, despite having helped end several conflicts.

“If this works, we’ll have eight to eight in eight months. That’s pretty good,” Trump said during a speech to dozens of high-ranking generals and admirals in Quantico, Virginia. “No one has ever done that. Will you get the Nobel Prize? Absolutely not.

President Donald Trump and María Corina Machado, leader of the Venezuelan opposition (Reuters/Getty Images)

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“They’ll give it to a guy who hasn’t done anything,” he continued. “They will give it to whoever wrote a book about the mind of Donald Trump and what it took to solve the wars. The Nobel Prize will go to a writer.”