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President Donald Trump called for an end to the Russia-Ukraine war in his first interview since returning to the White House, saying Russian President Vladimir Putin Never should have launched his full scale invasion in 2022.
Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity that an estimated 850,000 Russian soldiers and 700,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died since the war began.
“These are people who are just killing millions on this battlefield. They’re already dead, and the cities – the cities are like demolition sites,” he said in an interview that aired Thursday on “Hannity.”
The interior shows a kindergarten, which, according to Ukrainian military officials (Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine/material via Reuters)
The 47th president criticized former President Joe Biden for “allowing” the war to begin, saying his predecessor’s energy policies made Putin richer.
“Putin shouldn’t have done it either. I mean, I don’t blame just that — Putin shouldn’t have done it. He shouldn’t have done it and it has to stop,” Trump said.
He threatened an autocratic leader in truth a social post On Wednesday, urging him to make a deal or face more economic pressure.
“Settle down now and stop this ridiculous war! It’s only going to get worse. Unless we make a ‘deal’, and soon, I have no choice but to put high taxes, Tariffs and sanctions Anything sold by Russia to the US and various other participating countries,” Trump wrote.
Russian President Vladimir Putin approaches a meeting with members of the government via video conference at the Kremlin in Moscow on July 19, 2023. ((Photo by Alexander Kazakov/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images))
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He told reporters at the White House on Thursday that it was President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky had already told him that he was ready to negotiate an end to the war.
“He’s had enough,” Trump told Hannity. “He shouldn’t have allowed it either. You know, unless he’s an angel, he shouldn’t have allowed this war. First of all, he’s fighting a much bigger entity, okay? Much bigger.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, second from left, looks at a map during a visit to the 110th Mechanized Brigade in Audiyev, the site of fierce battles with Russian troops in Donetsk region, Ukraine, on December 29, 2023. (Ukrainian press service of the president via AP)
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“Zelenskyy 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, ” Trump said. “I could do this thing so easily, and Zelenky decided that ‘I want to fight.’
Reuters reported in November that Putin is open to peace talks. He could reportedly agree to freeze the conflict along current lines.
Five current and former Russian officials said that Moscow does not tolerate Ukraine joining NATO on its way out, and it will not allow the presence of NATO troops on Ukrainian soil.
The public area in Kyiv was transformed into a tribute to Ukrainian flags – each of which represented death from war. (Simon Owen/Fox News)
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Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, ret. Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg said: “America reports” Earlier this month that he would like the war to end within 100 days of taking office.
