“I don’t love sanctions. I found them very useful with Iran,
but I didn’t even need sanctions with Iran so much,” he said.
Trump has repeatedly promised to end the war in Ukraine “in 24 hours” if he
wins the presidential election.
“I know President Putin very well. I know Zelenskyy very
well,” he said during a speech on Jan. 16. “We’re going to get it solved very
quickly.”
He also said he “would have allowed” Russia to capture part
of Ukraine and that the U.S. is sending too much weaponry to Ukraine.
He has stated that he would “allow” Russia to take over part
of Ukraine and that the United States is giving Ukraine too many weapons.
The Washington Post reported in May that Trump said at a
campaign event that he would bomb Moscow if it launched a full-scale invasion
of Ukraine during his time in the Oval Office.
On April 9, Politico reported that Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelenskyy had rejected the idea, backed by Trump and his allies, that
Kyiv could quickly end the full-scale Russian invasion by making large-scale
territorial concessions.
“If the deal is that we just give up our territories, and that’s the idea behind it, then it’s a very primitive idea,” Zelenskyy said. “I need very strong arguments. I don’t need a fantastic idea, I need a real idea, because people’s lives are at stake.”