President Donald Trump focused on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy in a press event on Monday about his frustration about the objection of the Ukrainian leader against ‘landlord’.
“I can get along with Zenskyy, but you know, I disagree with what he did, very, very, very much, disagree. This is a war that should never have happened,” said Trump, who repeated his conviction that the Ukrainian president has partly failed to the illegal 2022 -invasia.
“I was a bit troubled by the fact that Zensky said,” Well, I have to get constitutional approval, “Trump said.” I mean, he has approval to go into the war and kill everyone, but he needs approval to do a land change because there will be some landlord. “
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President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on Monday 11 August 2025. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty images)
“I know that by Russia and through conversations with everyone,” Trump added, and noted that it was “for the well -being of Ukraine.”
Zenskyy – who did not declare war on russia, as moscow had already invaded, did declare martial law on Feb. 24, 2022 With the approach of Ukraine’s Parliament, which Gave Him Presidential Powers to Mobilize a Military Response – Made Clear about the Weekend He Objected to Trump’s “Land Swapping” Proposal and Has Repeatedly Said Requy, NotieRue Require Require Decision by him.
Zenskyy Dank NATO, European leaders for supporting his push to become a member of Trump -Putin Summit
The Ukrainian President VolodyMyr Zensky speaks during a press conference during the Ukrainian recovery conference 2025 in Roma Convention Center La Nuvola on July 10, 2025 in Rome. (Antonio Masiello/Getty image)
Trump would not describe what exactly he hopes to get out of the meeting with Putin and described it as a “fens-out meeting”, say within “The first two minutes [he’ll] Know exactly if a deal can be closed. “
“I’m going to talk to Vladimir Putin, and I’m going to tell him, you have to end this war, you have to end it,” Trump said, repeated his conviction that if he had won the 2020 elections, Putin Ukraine would not have fell in and said, “He didn’t go bad.”
President Donald Trump, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes his hand at the start of a meeting in the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, on July 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, file)
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“I am going on that thing completely loaded above it, and we will see what is happening,” he went on. “It can be a good meeting, and we’re going one step further. We’ll get it done.
“I would like to see a strike very quickly, very quickly -the fires,” he went on. “And we are dealing with European leaders and we are going to deal with President Zensky and hopefully we will have a great success.”
