- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has dismissed President Trump’s claim that the war could end in a day.
- Zelensky told ABC that the idea was “beautiful” but not based on “real experience.”
- He argued that President Trump had failed to achieve peace during his four-year presidency.
Donald Trump has been president for four years but has not been able to resolve the Ukrainian-Russian conflict during that time, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview on Sunday, saying he wanted to end the war in a day. rejected as sheer fantasy the Republican claim that it could.
speak in Kyiv With ABC’s Martha RaddatzPresident Zelensky said there were “some dangerous signals, especially from politicians”, regarding future aid to Ukraine, but the issue of future aid “is for the American people to decide, and I do not want to intervene.” said.
Many Republicans support the Biden administration’s military support, including recent policies including the controversial cluster bombs, but grassroots activist Trump and presidential nominee rival Ron DeSantis. The party’s MAGA branch, which includes Mr. Deviate from domestic priorities.
Trump even claimed that he could have ended the all-out Russian invasion in February 2022 in a day. “It will take 24 hours. I will finish it.” he said in May. “It will be easy.”
Asked about the allegations, President Zelensky, himself diplomatic, said: “The desire to end the war is beautiful.” But he also added that “this aspiration should be based on real experience.”
Noting that Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014 and illegally annexed Crimea, Zelensky said Trump already had a chance to negotiate a peace deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Well, it seems like Donald Trump already had this 24 hours once in that era. We were at war, not all-out war, but we were at war and he had time But he must have had other priorities,” the Ukrainian leader said.
While in office, Trump suspended congressional-approved military aid to Ukraine to pressure Zelensky to launch an investigation into his political opponent and then-Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden. This incident led to his impeachment. Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper wrote in his memoir that President Trump “worried” that it was against federal law to not deliver aid meant to support “a democracy under siege.” Doesn’t seem like it,” he said.
President Zelensky said on Sunday he was not very interested in a peace deal that envisioned ceding land to invaders.
“If you’re talking about ending the war at the expense of Ukraine, or in other words, making them give up their territory, I think this way Biden could have ended the war in five minutes,” he said. . “But we disagree.”