As U.S. and Russian officials met Tuesday in Saudi Arabia on ending the war in Ukraine, President Donald Trump responded to complaints from Kyiv that it was not part of the discussions.
“I have the power to end this war, and I think it’s going very well,” Trump said during a news briefing from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. “But today I heard, oh well, we weren’t invited. Well, you’ve been there for three years. … You should have never started it. You could have made a deal. I could have made a deal for Ukraine that would have given them almost all of the land, everything, almost all of the land, and no people would have been killed and no city would have been demolished and not one dome would have been knocked down, but they chose not to do it that way.”
Trump said he thought the talks with Russia in Riyadh — which marked a dramatic shift in relations between the countries since the war started on Feb. 24, 2022 — went well and that he’s “much more confident” either a ceasefire or peace deal can be reached.
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