Trump blames Biden and Zelensky for failing to prevent war in Ukraine
US President Donald Trump on Monday accused his predecessor Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of failing to prevent the war in Ukraine.
โPresident Zelensky and Crooked Joe Biden did an absolutely horrible job in allowing this travesty to begin,โ Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
โThere were so many ways of preventing it from ever starting,โ he continued, without giving details about how the invasion ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin in February 2022 could have been stopped.
The war between Russia and Ukraine is Bidenโs war, not his, Trump said. He said he had only recently taken office and had no problem preventing the war during his previous term because Putin respects him.
The US president is pushing for a deal to end the war and maintains close ties to the Kremlin through his special envoy Steve Witkoff.
The deal envisaged by Trumpโs government corresponds in several ways to Moscowโs aspirations: Ukraine would give up its aspirations to join Nato and US soldiers would not be part of a possible peacekeeping force.