Trump claims Ukraine started the war with Russia

Donald Trump responded to Ukrainians who may be disappointed that their country's officials were not invited to peace talks.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has declared that he will not accept any agreement unless he and representatives of European states are at the table, reports say. cnn.

“I think I have the power to end this war, and I think it’s going well. But today I heard, ‘Oh, well, we weren’t invited.’ Yeah, you’ve been there for three years. You should have ended it in three years. You should never have started it. You could have made a deal,” Trump falsely claimed regarding Ukraine.

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The American leader said he could have "made a deal" on Ukraine if he had been US president when the war broke out in 2022.

"I could have reached a deal for Ukraine that would have given them almost all of the territory," the 78-year-old said.

"Everything, almost the entire territory. And no one would have been killed and no city would have been destroyed," he concluded.

Otherwise, American and Russian officials discussed today in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, without the presence of Ukraine. /Telegraph/