UNITED STATE President Donald Trump talks at Mar- a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, UNITED STATE,Feb 18, 2025.
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President Donald Trump beneficial Tuesday that Ukraine was answerable for Russia’s intrusion of the nation 3 years earlier, saying Kyiv can have negotiated to forestall the dispute.
“You should have never started it,” Trump claimed of Ukraine whereas slamming President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, that had really revealed downside that his nation was not consisted of in talks between the U.S. and Russia on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia.
“I think I have the power to end this war, and I think it’s going very well. But today I heard, ‘Oh, well, we weren’t invited.’ Well, you’ve been there for three years,” Trump knowledgeable press reporters at his Mar- a-Lago lodge. “You should have never started it. You could have made a deal.”
Trump occurred to state: “I could have made a deal for Ukraine that would have given them almost all of the land, everything, almost all of the land, and no people would have been killed, and no city would have been demolished, and not one dome would have been knocked down. But they chose not to do it that way.”
The Ukrainian Embassy in Washington didn’t immediately reply to an ask for focus on Trump’s feedback.
The UNITED STATE and Russia on Tuesday concurred in high-level talks to re-establish embassy staffing, deviating from earlier American plan on the problem. Zelenskyy claimed earlier Tuesday that “Ukraine did not know anything about it.”
Trump, that claimed lately that he and President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone relating to ending the battle, has really considerably made remarks which have really boosted the Russian head of state. He claimed all through a gathering final month with Fox News that Ukraine should not have fought when it was attacked by Russia.
