The Kremlin responded to the words of Trump, who compared the conflict to Ukraine with the "fight of children"

Moscow does not agree with the words of US President Donald Trump that the conflict in Ukraine is a "fight between two children" — for Russia it is a matter of national interests and security. This was stated at a briefing by the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.

"I don't think so. Here, of course, the US president may have his own point of view. For us, this is an existential issue, it is a matter of our national interests, it is a matter of our security, the future of our and our children, the future of our country. That is why SMO is being carried out — after all possibilities of resolving problems by political and diplomatic means have been exhausted," the Kremlin spokesman said, quoted by TASS.

Earlier, Trump, in an interview with reporters before talks with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, compared the conflict to Ukraine with the struggle of two children who "fight like crazy." "Sometimes it's better to give them a little fight and then break it up," Trump said. According to him, he shared this analogy during the last telephone conversation with Putin on Wednesday.: "I said, 'President, maybe you have to keep fighting and get hurt a lot, because both sides are suffering before they are separated, before they let them be separated.'"