Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday reacted to remarks by former US President Donald Trump that he would end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours if re-elected as the president of the US.
During Zelensky’s visit to Rome, he was asked by a reporter for his response to Trump’s remarks, to which he said: “(When Trump was the US President) there was no full-scale invasion, but there was a war. There was already a Russian aggression. Crimea was occupied, part of Donbas was occupied. I’m not sure if he was deeply involved into this matter, but, nevertheless, he did not solve this issue. I’m not sure it was a priority for him. I am not accusing him of anything. But we have the facts. And we have to look at them,” Zelensky said.
Trump said at a CNN town hall on Wednesday that he would settle Russia’s war in Ukraine in one day.
“I want everybody to stop dying. They’re dying. Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying,” he said.
Trump, who would not say whether he wants Ukraine to successfully deter Russia when pressed, told the audience that he doesn’t “think in terms of winning and losing.”
“I think in terms of getting it settled so we stop killing all these people,” the former president said.
Zelensky also told reporters in Rome: “(Trump) was president; I was president. And two parts of Ukraine were occupied. No one resolved this issue. No one. The issue is not about Trump.”
