“You should have never started it. You could have made a deal. I could have made a deal for Ukraine.”
Trump said that he was “much more confident” of reaching an agreement following the talks in Riyadh led by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
Asked if his administration would support Russia’s calls for elections in Ukraine as part of any peace deal, Trump claimed without evidence that Zelenskyy had an approval rating of just 4 percent and noted that the country’s elections had been suspended under martial law.
During his news conference at Mar-a-Lago, Trump expressed support for the use of European peacekeepers but suggested US troops would not get involved.
“If they want to do that, that’s great, I’m all for it,” Trump said. “I’m all for it if they want to do that.”
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