Trump spoke about Ukraine, which has been facing Russian aggression for the third year, while signing the decrees in the Oval Office. He noted that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wants an agreement to settle the conflict.
“I don’t know if Putin wants it, maybe not. But I think he is destroying Russia by not finding a settlement,” Trump said to the Kremlin ruler.
According to him, Putin should be “very pleased with the end of this war”. According to Trump, Russia is “heading for big problems”, as evidenced by the state of the Russian economy and the rate of inflation in the country. Trump also did not rule out maintaining anti-Russian sanctions at least until the end of the war. His opinion on sanctions was a big question mark before returning to office.
We will take back the Panama Canal, I will send soldiers to the southern border of the USA. Trump started sharply
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According to Trump, in February 2022, Moscow expected that “the war would end in a week”, but instead it has been going on for three years. Therefore, he hopes that Putin will want to come to an agreement.
Trump did not specifically talk about Ukraine in his inaugural speech, as The Kyiv Post reminded, AFP called his words from the Oval Office the first clear attempt to put pressure on the Kremlin.
Trump also stated that he plans to meet Putin soon. When the pair met during Trump’s first term, the US president drew a significant amount of criticism for believing Putin’s claims during the meeting and questioning his own intelligence.
According to the BBC News server, the journalists also asked Trump about his promise to end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours of his return to the highest office. “We’re only halfway through the day, I still have half left. We’ll see,” replied the old president.
Trump’s whirlwind to begin with. He canceled dozens of Biden’s decrees and pardoned hundreds of those accused of the attack on the Capitol
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