U.S. President-elect Donald Trump delivers remarks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., December 16, 2024.
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President-elect Donald Trump stated Sunday Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed his curiosity in a gathering concerning the struggle with Ukraine.
“President Putin stated that he desires to fulfill with me as quickly as potential,” Trump stated throughout his remarks at Turning Point’s America Fest conference. “So we’ve got to attend for this, however we’ve got to finish that struggle. That struggle is horrible, horrible.”
Trump, who is about to return to the White House in January, beforehand stated on the marketing campaign path that if elected, he may finish the struggle “in 24 hours.” The president-elect just lately criticized the coverage change by President Joe Biden that allowed Ukraine to make use of U.S.-supplied weapons to strike inside Russian territory.
The president-elect additionally just lately stated Ukraine will “presumably” obtain much less navy help as soon as he takes workplace. Ukraine is closely reliant on its worldwide companions for navy, monetary and humanitarian help that permits it to proceed functioning as a state, and preventing Russia after virtually three years of struggle.
“The variety of troopers being killed…” Trump stated Sunday. “It’s a flat airplane, and the bullets are going and there is highly effective bullets, highly effective weapons, and the one factor that is going to cease them is a human physique.”
Earlier this month, Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Paris together with French President Emmanuel Macron forward of the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral. After the assembly, Trump referred to as for an “quick ceasefire.”
— NBC News contributed reporting.
