Russia Trump: Selenskyj makes deals difficult
US President Donald Trump has denied Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj decisive negotiating skills for a peace solution in the Ukraine war. "He's been in meetings for three years, but he hasn't gotten anything done," Trump said in an interview with his Fox News channel in Washington. "He's making it very hard to get a deal, and look what's happened to his country," Trump said.
21.02.2025, 21:24
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However, Trump acknowledged that Russia is the aggressor in the conflict against Ukraine. "They were attacked by somebody much bigger and much stronger, which is a bad thing and something you don't do," Trump said in the interview. However, there was actually no reason for Russia to attack Ukraine.
In the interview, the US President insinuated that it would have been easy to stop Russian President Vladimir Putin from launching the attack. "He could have been talked out of it very easily," said Trump. His predecessor Joe Biden had chosen the wrong words, and Zelensky had also chosen the wrong words. The European states had also done nothing for three years.
Last week, Ukraine scuppered a deal on US access to rare earths and other minerals stored in Ukraine that had already been negotiated from the US perspective. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had to return home without having achieved anything. Trump then began to berate Zelensky on several channels, including calling the Ukrainian a "dictator" because there had been no elections in Ukraine for some time.
