President Donald Trump said in a Interview over time As part of the peace proposal to end the Russian-Ukraine war, “Crimea will remain with Russia” and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “understands this”.
This occurs when Trump ignited Zelensky earlier this week, accusing him of prolonging the war by “inflammatory declarations”, after the Ukrainian president said that his nation “will not legally recognize the occupation of Crimea” because it is against their constitution.
Asked during the time interview if peace is possible with Zelensky as president, Trump said: “Yes, I do it. He is president now and I think we are going to conclude an agreement.”
The interview, published Friday and carried out on April 22, examines the first 100 days of Trump. In this document, Trump also reiterates how he believes that Ukraine has triggered the conflict with Russia by the desire to join NATO – which, according to him, will not happen.
“I don’t think they can never join NATO. I think it was – from the first day, I think that is what I think what caused war is when they started talking about NATO,” said Trump.
Trump said that he thought that Russian President Vladimir Putin prefers to “take everything”, which means that Ukraine, but he is “the only one who can negotiate this thing”.
Trump said on the campaign track several times that he could resolve the conflict in a day or 24 hours. He said to the time that it was “jokingly said.”
“Well, I said figuratively, and I said it as an exaggeration, because to make a point, and you know, it obtains, of course, by the news (unintelligible),” said Trump. “Obviously, people know that when I said that, it was said joking, but it was also said that it would be over.”
Earlier this month, Trump acknowledged that Russian President Vladimir Putin began war against Ukraine, but also continued to blame Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and former President Joe Biden, saying “everyone to blame”.
Wednesday, Vice-President JD Vance said that he considered one of the last stages to reach peace between Ukraine and Russia as an agreement to freeze the territorial lines “somewhere near” of the place where they are today, which means that each party should abandon land.