Trump asserts truce with Ukraine

The former US president promised to reach a deal between Kiev and Moscow “within 24 hours.”

At a campaign stop in New Hampshire on Saturday, former US President Donald Trump asserted that if elected, he could rapidly mediate a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine. He also criticises Joe Biden’s international strategy as president.

Joe Biden, according to Donald Trump, “has taken us to the verge of World War III by cowardice and ineptitude.”

He said that if he had still been in charge, the fighting between Moscow and Kiev would not have happened, and he promised to “bring back peace through strength.”

He claimed, “My personality saved us from conflict.” “There wouldn’t have been a war with Russia in Ukraine if I had been president.”

The declaration was made at a time when some Republicans were debating whether the present level of US military assistance to Ukraine was justified. In a letter to Biden and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Friday, four House Republicans voiced their disapproval of Washington’s decision to give Kiev M1 Abrams tanks.

Ukrainian officials have already stated that if Russia is to enter into peace talks with Moscow, it must give up its recently annexed areas. Vladimir Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, issued a proclamation last year declaring it “impossible” to negotiate with Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia. Zelensky stated once more on Wednesday that he had no desire to speak with Putin.

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Meanwhile, Moscow has consistently criticised the Ukrainian demands as being unacceptable. Late last month, Sergey Lavrov, the foreign minister of Russia, claimed that the Ukrainian government was made up of “brazen Russophobes” and was incapable of engaging in negotiations.

Late in February, Russia began a military action in Ukraine, citing the necessity to defend the Donbass population and Kiev’s disregard for the 2014–15 Minsk peace accords. Following referendums in September, the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, together with two additional former Ukrainian areas, the Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions, joined Russia. The same was done by Crimea not long after the Kiev coup in 2014.