Trump has said repeatedly he wouldn't have allowed the conflict to start if he had been in office, even though he was president as fighting grew in eastern Ukraine between Kyiv's forces and separatists backed by Moscow.
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00U.S. President Donald Trump has said his administration has had very serious discussions with Russia
00:08about the war in Ukraine. Trump said that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin could
00:12soon take significant action towards ending the three-year conflict. Trump didn't say
00:18who from his administration has been in contact with Moscow, but insisted the two sides were
00:23already talking. Trump has said repeatedly he wouldn't have allowed the conflict to start
00:28if he'd been in office in 2022. Since returning to office, Trump has criticized Ukrainian
00:34President Volodymyr Zelensky, saying he should have made a deal with Putin to avoid the conflict.
00:40He also criticized Joe Biden's administration for spending billions in U.S. taxpayer money
00:45on military and economic aid for Kyiv. Ukraine currently relies on the U.S. for around 40
00:51percent of its military needs, and since February 2022, Washington has sent Kyiv more than 62
00:57billion euros.