Trump Points Fingers At Biden, Zelenskyy For War Prompted By Putin’s Invasion Of Ukraine | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump on Monday stated each former President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy are answerable for the three-year struggle prompted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

In a publish on his Truth Social platform, Trump, but once more, didn’t fault Russian President Vladimir Putin for ordering his troops to cross into the neighboring nation in February 2022.

“The War between Russia and Ukraine is Biden’s war, not mine,” Trump wrote. “I just got here, and for four years during my term, had no problem in preventing it from happening. President Putin, and everyone else, respected your President!”

Trump had no phrases of criticism for Putin, as an alternative shifting his focus to Zelenskyy, whom he accused of not taking sufficient motion to stop the struggle from breaking out.

“President Zelenskyy and Crooked Joe Biden did an absolutely horrible job in allowing this travesty to begin,” he stated. “There were so many ways of preventing it from ever starting. But that is the past. Now we have to get it to STOP, AND FAST. SO SAD!”

Trump continued his campaign from the Oval Office later Monday morning.

“He’s always looking to purchase missiles,” Trump stated of Zelenskyy to reporters. “When you start a war, you gotta know that you can win a war. You don’t start a war against somebody that’s 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles.”

He continued: “If Biden were competent, and if Zelenskyy were competent, and I don’t know that he is … that war should’ve never been allowed to happen. I went four years and Putin wouldn’t even bring it up, and as soon as the election was rigged and I wasn’t here, that war started.”

This just isn’t the primary time the U.S. president has lashed out at Zelenskyy.

Trump has known as Zelenskyy a “dictator without elections,” although elections had been suspended in Ukraine because of the struggle. He additionally accused the Ukrainian chief of “gambling with World War III” throughout their historic Oval Office conflict.

Zelenskyy instructed CBS’s “60 Minutes” final week that a few of the White House’s messaging on the struggle echoes Russian speaking factors.

“How is it possible to witness our losses and our suffering, to understand what the Russians are doing, and to still believe that they are not the aggressors, that they did not start this war?” Zelenskyy requested, in keeping with a translation by CBS.

“This speaks to the enormous influence of Russia’s information policy on America, on U.S. politics, and U.S. politicians,” he added.

Zelenskyy additionally accused Vice President JD Vance, who additionally sparred with him throughout the notorious White House assembly, of “somehow justifying Putin’s actions.”

Following the printed of the “60 Minutes” episode on Sunday night, Trump known as for the community to lose its license.

“They are not a ‘News Show,’ but a dishonest Political Operative simply disguised as ‘News’ and must be responsible for what they have done, and are doing,” he wrote.

Meanwhile, Trump on Sunday was requested to weigh in on Russia’s missile assault within the Ukrainian metropolis of Sumy, which killed at the least 34 folks. But the president wouldn’t say if he thought the lethal assault was unintentional, as a number of world leaders condemned Moscow.

“I think it was terrible, and I was told they made a mistake,” he stated. “But I think it’s a horrible thing. I think the whole war is a horrible thing.”

Lydia O’Connor contributed reporting.