“I give Ukraine credit for doing so well. They are very good fighters. I think President Putin would look great if he solved this problem, and I think he will solve it,” Trump said.
He added that if Putin still doesn't do this, it “wouldn't be good for him.”
Context
On September 23, after a meeting with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, Trump said that Ukraine is capable of conquering all territories. In a conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York Trump compared the Russian Federation to a “paper tiger.” He emphasized that during the full-scale war in Ukraine, Moscow has not achieved success, although it pretends to be winning. The media wrote that Trump’s statement about the “paper tiger” of the Russian Federation based on new US intelligence data.
Trump has said more than once that he is disappointed with Putin, including several times V July, as well as 2nd, 20th And September 30. Total, as calculated The Moscow Times, the US President has repeated this phrase eight times already. In response, Putin stated that “all disappointments arise from excessive expectations.”
