![]() Other reaction across the Atlantic has so far been muted. “Who knows where we’ll be (when the election happens)?” Zelensky said, according to the BBC. In an interview with European public broadcasters that was published on Thursday, Zelensky expressed confidence that Ukraine will win the war by 2024, thus mitigating concerns over the outcome over the presidential election. He would have never gone in if I was president,” referring to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. When asked to elaborate, Trump said, “His mistake was going in. He’s not a stupid person and he’s very cunning. They want you to say he’s a stupid person. Trump called Putin “a smart guy,” but said the Russian leader “made a tremendous mistake.” “If he’s going to be a war criminal, people are going to grab him and execute him, he’s going to fight a lot harder than he’s fighting under the other circumstance.” “If you say he’s a war criminal, it’s going to be a lot tougher to make a deal to make this thing stopped,” Trump said. Thousands of Ukrainian children have been subjected to forced deportations by Russia, according to Zelensky, who hailed the ICC’s decision at the time. The ICC issued arrest warrants in March for Putin and Russian official Maria Lvova-Belova for an alleged scheme to deport Ukrainian children to Russia – a practice the Russian government has defended as saving them while denying that the deportations are forced. The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan told CNN in March he believes Putin could stand trial for alleged crimes committed during Russia’s war. While Trump said he would meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin and solve the war in Ukraine “in one day, 24 hours,” he would not say whether he believed Putin was a war criminal but that it “should be discussed later.” Trump: Putin ‘smart guy’ who ‘made a tremendous mistake’ The US has provided Ukraine with $36.9 billion in military aid since the beginning of the war in February 2022. Pressed by Collins on the conflict, Trump replied, “I’ll say this: I want Europe to put up more money.” “Ukrainians are the victims here, Russia is the aggressor … I don’t need to abide by that same sense of courtesy for the Russians,” he said. White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby declined at the time to provide information on Ukrainian casualties, noting that it is Ukraine’s decision to make its casualty figures public. The US defines the term “casualty” as both wounded and killed. ![]() The White House last week estimated that the Russian military has suffered more than 100,000 casualties since December in its war with Ukraine.
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