Trump accused Zelensky of starting the war in Ukraine

Yesterday, U.S. President Donald Trump stated that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should not have “started” the war and criticized Ukrainian authorities for having had three years to negotiate.

This was Trump’s response to Zelensky’s remarks criticizing U.S.-Russia negotiations in Saudi Arabia.

“Today, I heard: ‘Oh, we weren’t invited.’ Well, you were there for three years. You should have ended this three years ago. You shouldn’t have started this. You could have made a deal. I could have made a deal for Ukraine that would have left them with almost all their land, and not a single person would have been killed, and not a single city destroyed. But they chose not to do it that way. And President Biden has been so bad at this,” Trump said.

The day before, Trump also demanded elections in Ukraine and claimed that Zelensky’s approval rating is at 4 percent. According to Trump, it is not Russia that is pushing Ukraine toward elections, but rather the “situation” itself.

Meanwhile, Western media suggest that these statements from Trump are a direct reaction to Zelensky’s criticism of the U.S.-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia, which reportedly angered the former U.S. president.