Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that his US counterpart was "doing a lot" to resolve world "crises" but that it was not for him to decide whether Donald Trump should receive the Nobel prize.

Since returning to the White House for his second term, Trump had repeatedly insisted that he deserved the Nobel for his role in resolving numerous conflicts -- a claim observers say is broadly exaggerated.

Trump restated his claim on the eve of the peace prize announcement, saying that his brokering of the first phase of a ceasefire in Gaza this week was the eighth war he had ended.

"It's not for me to judge whether the current US president deserves the Nobel prize -- I don't know," Putin told reporters in Tajikistan when asked about whether Trump deserved the award.

"But he's real

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