During a recent interview, US President Donald Trump was asked about the Russia-Ukraine War and he blamed Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the war. Trump went on to say that he could have made a deal but Zelenskyy decided that ‘I want to fight’.
In an interview, Donald Trump stated that the war between Russia and Ukraine should not have taken place in the first place because ‘Zelenskyy was fighting a much bigger entity, much bigger, much more powerful’ and that ‘he shouldn’t have done that, because we could have made a deal’. He further stated, “I could have made that deal so easily, and Zelenskyy decided that ‘I want to fight.”
On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that the crisis in Ukraine might have been prevented if US President Donald Trump was in power at the time, stating he was ready to talk with the him about the conflict, according to the media reports. Notably, Donald Trump has long claimed that the war in Ukraine would not have happened under his watch, but on Friday, Putin suggested the same thing- while also repeating Trump’s allegation that the 2020 US election was “stolen”.
“I can’t help but agree with (Trump) that if his victory had not been stolen in 2020, then maybe there would not have been the crisis in Ukraine that arose in 2022,” quoted Putin as saying. “As for the issue related to negotiations – we have always said, and I will emphasize this once again, that we are ready for negotiations on the Ukrainian issue,” he told. A day earlier the Kremlin said it was waiting on signals from Washington.
In the past, Trump has said that one day he would end the war in Ukraine, but gave his special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg 100 days to find a solution. Trump’s new administration has not revealed plan for how to achieve peace in Ukraine, but Trump said that Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had told him that he wants to make a deal and suggested Putin should also want to find a solution, according to the media reports.
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