WASHINGTON – President Trump backed up on Friday with previous claims that Ukraine had “started” a three-year-old war with Russia, but Moscow claimed that it “may have been told” to his western neighbor.
“I'm telling you, [former President Joe] Biden said the wrong thing. [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky said the wrong thing,” Trump, 78, told Fox News Radio's “The Brian Kilmeade Show.”
“They were attacked by people who were much bigger and far more powerful. This is a bad thing and you don't – but Russia may have spoken easily from that.
“It should have never been a war, and all dead people should not die. All these cities should not be demolished right now,” Trump said, as Trump argued Tuesday, Kiev. He added that he repeatedly pushed against the president. – In 80 years, the most deadly conflict in Europe began.
“Russia attacked, but if there were anyone who did what they were doing, they shouldn't have made him attack because they weren't attacking,” the president repeated.
“And I'll tell you, [Russian President Vladimir] Putin may have spoken very easily from then on, but they didn't know how to speak. ”
Later in the association, Trump suggested talking to Putin about liberating the thousands of Ukrainian children who were invited and taken to Russia during the battle.
Trump unleashed a barrage of verbal attacks on Zelensky from Tuesday, telling reporters that Ukraine “never started” a war with Russia.
On Wednesday, Trump wrote a lengthy post for Zelensky about the social labeling of truth, calling for a new election in Ukraine.
The US President continued his swipe at Zelensky in an interview with Kilmeade. He was there for three years. He makes deals very difficult. ”
The tiff began on Tuesday when American diplomats met their Russian counterparts in Saudi Arabia without the presence of Ukraine, and American diplomats met.
Zelensky expressed his dissatisfaction with being ruled out of talks, saying Trump lives in a “disinformation” space in Russia.
The Ukrainian president also rejected the deal presented by Treasury Secretary Scott Bescent, which led to rage from the White House in search of 50% of the country's rare earth minerals.
“[Bessent]very good guy, actually went there, and they couldn't even get close to getting the deal done. And frankly, I hope he didn't go there and waste all his time like that, but they couldn't get close,” Trump said to Kilmeade as the first rarer He said he offered a deal on Earth.
“Did they meet? And when? [Bessent] I wanted to get it closer, he couldn't meet [Zelensky] Also. So just a wasteful trip, a dangerous trip to him. I didn't like he was doing it. Because he is a good person. I didn't want him to be in danger. Because I felt that was going to happen. ”
Zelensky said it refused the initial transaction because it didn't see enough “security guarantees” that the US offers in exchange for billions of mineral rights.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told journalist Katherine Hellidge in an interview released Thursday night that “security guarantees” are a US “investment.”
The US offered Ukraine a new rare earth offer late Thursday, and after a three-day meeting on Friday, Trump's special Ukrainian envoy Keith Kellogg was leaving Kiev.
