Trump: Zelenskyy Should Have Struck Peace-Deal with Russia
Donald Trump has criticised Volodymyr Zelenskyy for refusing to negotiate with Russia to stop the conflict in Ukraine, arguing that even the “worst deal” would be preferable to the present amount of death and destruction.
Speaking at a campaign event in North Carolina on Wednesday, Trump stated that Ukraine will never be able to recover from the “many dead people” and towns and cities devastated by the conflict.
“Those cities are gone. They’re gone, and we continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refused to make a deal, Zelenskyy. There was no deal that he could have made that wouldn’t have been better than the situation you have right now,” Trump told supporters.
“You have a country that has been obliterated and is not possible to be rebuilt. It’ll take hundreds of years to rebuild it; there’s not enough money to rebuild it if the whole world gets together.”
“If they made a bad deal, it would have been much better,” Trump said.
“They would have given up a little bit, and everybody would be living, and every building would be built, and every tower would be ageing for another 2,000 years.”
Trump also accused Zelenskyy of “making nasty little dispersions towards” him, presumably referring to an interview published in The New Yorker on Sunday in which the Ukrainian leader said the Republican candidate “doesn’t really know how to stop the war even if he might think he knows how.”
Zelenskyy also referred to Trump’s running mate JD Vance as “too radical” after the Ohio Senator stated last week at a press conference that “everything is going to be on the table” when asked whether Kyiv ought to give up land in return for a ceasefire.
Trump’s remarks, which were his most direct criticism of the Ukrainian leader and his handling of the war to date, came hours after Zelenskyy urged international leaders not to settle for “a lull” in the fight instead of a “real, just peace.”
Zelenskyy presented the call for solidarity at the UN General Assembly in New York on Wednesday as he sought to gather support for his 2022 “peace formula” that demands the withdrawal of all Russian forces from Ukraine.
Trump has repeatedly claimed that he would end the war almost immediately if elected, but he has provided little specifics.
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