In exchange for Ukraine giving up substantial amounts of its territory to Russia in the ongoing peace talks to end the war there, President Donald Trump thinks Russia should not have to give up much at all.
When a reporter asked him what concessions Russia has offered so far to move the needle closer to peace, Trump said, “Stopping the war. Stopping — taking the whole country.”
“Pretty big concession,” he added.
Russia has been attempting ― and failing ― to take the whole country since February 2022.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has ruled out ceding territory as part of the talks.
“There is nothing to talk about,” Zelenskyy said Tuesday. “It is our land, the land of the Ukrainian people.”
Trump has repeatedly failed to fault Russian President Vladimir Putin for the violence in Ukraine after his country invaded, continuing a long and bizarre streak of capitulation.
Instead, Trump has blamed his predecessor President Joe Biden and Zelenskyy.
“The War between Russia and Ukraine is Biden’s war, not mine,” Trump said earlier this month. “I just got here, and for four years during my term, had no problem in preventing it from happening. President Putin, and everyone else, respected your President!”
As a presidential candidate, Trump repeatedly said that, if he were elected, he’d settle the war in one day.
On Thursday, after Russia bombed Kyiv overnight, killing 12 and wounding around 90 more, Trump was reduced to asking Putin to stop via social media: “Vladimir, STOP!”
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