Donald Trump has claimed that ‘millions are dead’ in Ukraine ‘because of three people’.
The US President has yet again pointed the finger at Volodymyr Zelenskyy following their heated confrontation in the Oval Office back in February.
During the interaction, Trump, alongside Vice President JD Vance, accused the Ukrainian President of 'gambling with world war three' without support from the US.
In his Washington office yesterday (14 April), Trump was in a meeting with El Salvador's leader when he told reporters that Zelenskyy was not 'competent'.
Advert
Also taking a swipe at former POTUS Joe Biden, who was in office when the war first began, he said: "If Biden were competent, and if Zelenskyy were competent, and I don't know that he is. There was no way that war should never have been allowed to happen."
But he wasn't finished there, as he then took aim at Russia's president Vladimir Putin, adding: "Biden could have stopped it, and Zelenskyy could have stopped it, and Putin should have never started it."
When asked about Zelenskyy, Trump said: "When you start a war you've got to know you can win the war. You don't start a war against somebody that's 20 times your size.
"And then hope that people give you some missiles."
"Millions of people are dead because of three people," he continued.
"Let's say Putin number one, let's say Biden, who had no idea what the hell he was doing, number two, and Zelenskyy. And all I can do is try and stop it - that's all I want to do. I want to stop the killing.
"And I think we're doing well in that regard. I think you'll have some very good proposals very soon."
In a 60 Minutes interview, Zelenskyy hit back at Trump, insisting that he doesn't 'want to engage in the altered reality that is being presented to me'.
"First and foremost, we did not launch an attack. It seems to me that the vice president is somehow justifying Putin's actions," Zelenskyy said of JD Vance.
Opening up about his 'hatred' towards Putin, he said: "Putin? 100 percent hatred. Not even 99.9 percent."
"Though this doesn't mean we shouldn't work to end the war as soon as possible and transition to diplomacy. But how else can you see a person who came here and murdered our people, murdered children?
"We're inside a school bomb shelter right now. The bomb shelter of a school. The bomb shelter classrooms beneath the city of Kryvyi Rih were silent."
Zelenskyy further told CBS' Scott Pelley during the interview that this is the reason why 'we can't trust Russia'.
"Our people have paid the highest price possible. There is no higher price. We have given all our money--all we have in terms of finances. But most important, we gave [the lives of] our people," he said.
Topics: Donald Trump, Ukraine, Russia, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Politics
Anish Vij