President Donald Trump conceded that his efforts to broker a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia to end their three-year war are proving much harder than he initially expected. During a news conference at the NATO summit in the Netherlands,

NATO is ‘not a rip-off,’ the president adds at the end of the alliance’s summit, reversing past attacks on the organization.

The group has truncated its summit to focus on a 5% per-country spending target, something Trump supports, to avoid upsetting him.