Putin is not obliged to make a deal, he could get all of Ukraine — Trump

The presence of the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, at the negotiations on the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis is not necessary. This was stated by US President Donald Trump, according to CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs on the social network.

"I don't think he's very important to attend the meetings. To be honest, I would like him not to go there at all," said Trump, quoted by <url>.

According to the American president, Zelensky was not invited to the talks because he did not conduct them well, and the conflict could have been immediately resolved and settled.

"The trip of US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to Kiev was in vain, because Zelensky makes it very difficult to conclude deals," Trump said.

Unlike Zelensky, Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to make a deal, he stressed.

"Putin wants to make a deal. And he is not obliged to make a deal, because if he wanted to, he would get the whole country," Trump added, noting that Zelensky has no "cards up his sleeve" for negotiations with the Russian Federation.

He stressed that the war on Ukraine started because of the then US President Joe Biden and Zelensky - both of them said "the wrong things."

"You know, every time I say, 'Oh, it's not Russia's fault,' I'm always criticized… But I'm telling you, "Biden said the wrong things. Zelensky said the wrong things.“ They were attacked by someone who is much bigger and stronger, which is bad and can't be done that way. But Russia could be so easily dissuaded from this. There should never have been a war, and all these dead people should not have been dead, and all these cities should not have been destroyed... you should not have had a war, and if there had been, it should have been settled immediately. It could have been," the US president said.