Donald Trump has chastised Volodymyr Zelenskyy for refusing to negotiate with Russia to stop the conflict in Ukraine, arguing that even the “worst deal” would be preferable to the current amount of death and destruction.
At a campaign rally in North Carolina on Wednesday, Trump stated that Ukraine will never be able to replace its “many dead people” and towns and cities destroyed during the conflict.
Those cities are gone. They’re gone, and we continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refused to make a deal, Zelenskyy. There was no deal that he could have made that wouldn’t have been better than the situation you have right now,” Trump told supporters.“You have a country that has been obliterated, not possible to be rebuilt.
It’ll take hundreds of years to rebuild it, there’s not enough money to rebuild it if the whole world got together.”“If they made a bad deal, it would have been much better,” Trump said
They would have given up a little bit, and everybody would be living and every building would be built and every tower would be ageing for another 2,000 years
Trump also accused Zelenskyy of “making nasty little dispersions toward” him, an apparent reference to an interview published in The New Yorker on Sunday in which the Ukrainian leader stated that the Republican candidate “doesn’t really know how to stop the war, even if he might think he does.”
Zelenskyy also characterized Trump’s running mate JD Vance as “too radical” after the Ohio Senator said last week that “everything is going to be on the table” when asked during a news conference whether Kyiv should give land in exchange for a ceasefire