Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should not have allowed the conflict in Ukraine to begin, American leader Donald Trump said in an interview with Fox News.
The US President emphasised that the Ukrainian conflict should be finished immediately. According to him, Ukraine has been devastated as a result of this crisis. Trump said:
“First of all, he’s fighting a much bigger entity, okay, much bigger. When he was, you know, talking so brave… Zelensky was fighting a much bigger entity, much bigger, much more powerful. He shouldn’t have done that, because we could have made a deal, and it would have been a deal that would have been, it would have been a nothing deal.”
The US president noted that Russia had about 30,000 army tanks when the armed conflict started, while Zelensky had almost none.
“I could have made that deal so easily. And Zelensky decided: “I want to fight,” the US President claimed.
US President Donald Trump also said he wants to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin as soon as possible to seek an end to the war with Ukraine and expressed his desire to work on reducing nuclear weapons.
Trump called China a country that can play a constructive role in resolving the conflict in Ukraine. He noted:
“I look forward to productive co-operation. I hope China will help us stop the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. They have a great influence on this situation and we will work with them to resolve it.”
The US President again said that he would expand sanctions against Russia if Moscow does not conclude an agreement to end the conflict in Ukraine. He specified that in addition to Russia, sanctions could be imposed on other countries.
Trump also assured that he does not want to “hurt Russia,” and added:
“I love the Russian people and have always had very good relationship with President Putin – and this despite the hoaxes of the radical left about Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia.”
In the run-up to his election victory on November 5, Trump repeatedly said he would conclude an agreement between Ukraine and Russia on his first day in office, if not sooner. Now his advisers admit it will take months to resolve the war.
