Zelenskyy Rejects Trump ‘Children’s Fighting’ Analogy | EUROtoday

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rejected President Donald Trump’s concept that Russia and Ukraine are like youngsters on the playground who can be higher off combating for some time earlier than being pulled aside.

“We are not kids with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin at the playground in the park,” Zelenskyy mentioned in an interview with ABC’s Martha Raddatz. “He is a murderer who came to this park to kill the kids.”

Trump made the analogy throughout an Oval Office assembly with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

“Sometimes you see two young children fighting like crazy,” Trump mentioned. “They hate each other, and they’re fighting in a park, and you try and pull them apart. They don’t want to be pulled. Sometimes you’re better off letting them fight for a while and then pulling them apart.”

He famous that he had relayed the sentiment in a name with Putin earlier within the week.

“I said, ‘President, maybe you’re going to have to keep fighting and suffering a lot,’ because both sides are suffering before you pull them apart, before they’re able to be pulled apart,” Trump mentioned. “You see in hockey, you see it in sports. The referees let them go for a couple of seconds, let them go for a little while before you pull them apart.”

In an interview slated to air on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” Sunday, Zelenskyy mentioned Trump and others who’re “some thousands of miles away” don’t perceive the struggling Ukrainians have skilled since Russia invaded the nation in February 2022. He relayed feedback he heard from a father who misplaced his household in a missile strike, saying Trump “could not feel fully and understand this pain.”

Trump has brazenly criticized Zelenskyy various instances, arguing he has held up a possible peace plan by refusing to cede elements of the nation to Russia. Trump notably attacked Zelenskyy in a serious conflict throughout an Oval Office assembly, the place the U.S. president and Vice President JD Vance berated Zelenskyy and referred to as him “disrespectful.”

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