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President Donald Trump called for an end to the Russia-Ukraine War as part of his first sit-down interview since returning to the White House, saying the Russian president Vladimir Putin He should never 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 start of the war.
“These are human beings that are just being killed on this battlefield by the millions. They’re already dead and the cities — the cities are like demolition sites,” he said in an interview that aired Thursday on “Hannity.”
An interior view shows a kindergarten, which Ukrainian military officials say was damaged by shelling, in Stanytsia Luhanska in the Luhansk region, Ukraine, in this February image released on February 17, 2022. (Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine/handout via Reuters)
The 47th president criticized former President Joe Biden for “allowing” the war to start, claiming his predecessor’s energy policies enriched Putin.
“Putin shouldn’t have done it too. I mean, I’m not just blaming what, Putin shouldn’t have done it. He shouldn’t have done it and it has to stop,” Trump said.
He threatened the autocratic leader In a social publication of the truth Wednesday, asking him to make a deal or face more economic pressure.
“Accommodate now and stop this ridiculous war! It’s only going to get worse. If we don’t make a “deal”, and soon I have no choice but to put in high levels of taxes, Tariffs and sanctions On anything Russia sells to the United States and several other participating countries,” Trump wrote.
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs 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 White House reporters Thursday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy He has already told her that he is ready to negotiate an end to the war.
“You’ve had enough,” Trump told Hannity. “He shouldn’t have allowed this to happen either. You know, if he’s not an angel, he shouldn’t have allowed this war to happen. He’s fighting a much bigger entity in the first place, okay? Much bigger.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, second left, looks at a map during his visit to the Ukrainian 110th Mechanized Brigade in Avdiivka, the site of fierce battles with Russian troops in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, December 29, 2023, 2023 , 2023 (Ukrainian presidential press office via AP)
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“Zelenskyy was fighting a much bigger entity, much bigger, much more powerful. He shouldn’t have done it because we could have made a deal and it would have been a deal that would have been, it would have been a deal for nothing,” Trump said. “I could have made that deal so easily, and Zelenskyy decided ‘I want a fight.'”
Reuters reported in November That Putin is open to discussing a peace plan. He could reportedly agree to freeze the conflict along current lines.
Five current and former Russian officials said outlet Moscow would not tolerate Ukraine joining NATO, nor would it allow NATO troops on Ukrainian soil.
A public area in kyiv has become a memorial of Ukrainian flags, each representing a death from the war. (Simon Owen/Fox News)
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Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, ret. Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg told “America Reports” Earlier this month That he would like to see the war come to an end within 100 days of taking office.
