War in Ukraine: Donald Trump severely criticizes Volodymyr Zelensky and believes that he “should never have let this war start”

Il s’agit des propos les plus sévères de Donald Trump visant le président ukrainien. MAXPPP – UKRAINE PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE/HANDOUT

Donald Trump, le candidat républicain, à moins de trois semaines de l’élection américaine, a estimé jeudi 17 octobre 2024 que "l’Ukraine n’est plus l’Ukraine".

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose country was invaded by Russia on February 24, 2022, “should never have let this war start”, Donald Trump said Thursday, 19 days before an election that could send him back to the White House.

Joe Biden is “the instigator of this war”, the Republican candidate also claimed, while Ukrainians and many Europeans fear that a possible victory by the septuagenarian would lead to a withdrawal of military aid American in kyiv.

“Ukraine, note well, is no longer Ukraine”, the former president added, in a discussion with Patrick Bet-David, a businessman who hosts an online show called the “PBD Podcast.”

“Every city is pretty much flattened. All those beautiful golden domes are down, blown to pieces,”, Donald Trump continued. He added, about Volodymyr Zelensky: “This does not mean that I do not want to help him, because I feel sorry for these people".

Harsh remarks

These are the harshest remarks from Donald Trump aimed at the Ukrainian president since the two men met in New York at the end of September. Joe Biden, according to the Republican, bears the responsibility for not having been able to avoid this conflict.

"If we had a president with half a brain, this would have been easy to resolve", he assured. "I blame him for a lot of it. He said exactly the opposite of what should have been said. He was the instigator of this war”.

The Republican candidate assures that he will be able to resolve the Ukrainian crisis in 24 hours if he is elected on November 5, because of the presumed respect he would arouse internationally and because of his relationship with Vladimir Putin.

He keeps repeating that if he had been in the White House, the war in Ukraine would never have broken out.