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Following today’s discussions with top US and Russian officials that excluded Ukrainians, President Donald Trump criticised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and continued to echo Kremlin talking points about the conflict.
President Donald Trump indicated Tuesday that Ukraine was to blame for Russia’s three-year invasion of the nation, claiming Kyiv could have reached an agreement to avert the conflict.
“You should have never started it,” Trump said of Ukraine, criticising Zelenskyy, who had voiced worry that his nation was excluded from discussions between the US and Russia in Saudi Arabia.
Ukraine did not initiate the conflict, which began in February 2022 when Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded the nation.
Trump claimed that he could have made a deal for Ukraine “that would have given them almost all of the land… and no people would have been killed.”
“But,” he concluded, “They chose not to do it that way.”
Speaking from his resort in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, Trump added that while he likes Zelenskyy “personally,” he “cares about getting the job done.”
“He’s fine, but I don’t care about personally, I care about getting the job done. You have leadership now that’s allowed a war to go on that should have never even happened, even without the United States,” Trump said.
When asked about how US’s talks with Russia in Saudi Arabia, Trump says he feels “much more confident” in a peace deal after the meetings, which he says were “very good”.
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View All“Russia wants to do something, they want to stop the savage barbarianism”, the president says. “Soldiers are being killed by their thousands on a weekly basis, it’s ridiculous.”
He reiterated that this “senseless war” would have never happened if he was the president.