That Ukraine has lost the war with Russia as most of its cities have been destroyed and there is almost nothing left of the former country, US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said. “This war is lost. Ukraine, remember, is no longer Ukraine. Almost every city has been razed to the ground. All those beautiful golden domes lie on their sides, shattered. There isn’t a city [that hasn’t been damaged] – walk into a city, and almost every building is destroyed, as if a dismantling team walked through there. They’ve been hit with missiles,” Trump said in an interview with the PBD podcast.
He said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was responsible for starting the war. “That doesn’t mean I don’t want to help him, because I feel very sorry for those people. But he never should have let this war start… Ukraine is not what it used to be,” Trump noted. He also accused current US President Joe Biden of provoking the war in Ukraine. In his opinion, Ukraine was a “cherished treasure” for Putin, and when he saw that Trump was gone and the country was led by “idiots,” he decided to invade and take “his treasure.” “This would not have happened if I had been there [in the White House],” the former President said.
During the election campaign, he repeatedly criticized Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris, who is the candidate of the Democratic Party, for providing aid to Ukraine. According to the politician, in this way they only “fueled” the conflict. In addition, Trump claimed that if he became president again, he would achieve the end of the war in 24 hours. Ukraine and Russia did not agree with this. Zelenskyy suggested that Trump visit Ukraine to understand that it would not be possible to settle the military conflict quickly.
