Trump rejects Zelensky meeting, calls for US exit from Ukraine war
According to the Moscow Times, citing the Associated Press, Donald Trump does not plan to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky. "We're stuck in that war unless I’m president. I’ll get it done," Trump stated.
1:29 PM EDT, September 25, 2024
A representative of Trump's campaign told AP journalists that the Republican candidate will not meet with the Ukrainian president.
Earlier, Zelensky had announced that he wanted to personally discuss with Trump his "plan for victory and defeating Russia."
There will be no one-on-one meeting. "The USA should get out of this war."
The United States must "get out" of the Russian-Ukrainian war, but the White House has no plan on how to do it, Donald Trump previously argued during one of his campaign rallies. "Biden and Kamala got us into this war in Ukraine, and now they can’t get us out," he said.
"As someone once told me, they defeated Hitler, they defeated Napoleon. That's what they do. They fight. And it's not pleasant," he said.
The Moscow Times points out that most likely "no one told Trump that Russia lost the Crimean War, the Russo-Japanese War, World War I, and the war in Afghanistan."
Zelensky's mission in the USA
The Ukrainian president flew to the United States to participate in the UN General Assembly and present the plan, goal, and specific steps to ensure Ukraine's victory. He will discuss this with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre informed him that separate meetings would be held at the White House on the same day.
Addressing the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, Biden said that the war unleashed by Vladimir Putin had not achieved its main goal. "Putin's war has failed at its core aim. He set out to destroy Ukraine, but Ukraine is still free," the American leader said. He called the UN to support Ukraine "until it achieves a just and lasting peace."
