Trump on aid to Ukrainians: I don’t give them anything, but NATO countries buy US weapons “at full price”

Donald Trump, photo: Facebook

US President Donald Trump on Monday boasted that during his presidency, the United States not only does not spend to support Ukraine in the war against Russia, but also earns from it, and once again repeated that he wants to stop killing people.

Source: Trump during a round table with representatives of American agribusiness in response to journalists’ questions, Ukrinform quotes

Direct speech Trump: “Joe Biden (Trump’s predecessor – ed.) gave them (Ukrainians – ed.) $350 billion, and I don’t give them anything. But I gave them Javelins at the beginning… but Obama gave blankets…”

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Details: According to Trump, the situation is “great” right now, but there is one problem: “A lot of people are dying and I want it to stop.”

He again stated that 27,000 military personnel died in Ukraine last month, “mostly Ukrainian and Russian soldiers.”

At the same time, Trump reminded that the USA sells its weapons to NATO countries “at full price”, and NATO transfers them to Ukraine.

Direct speech Trump: “I think they could transfer it to others, but mostly they transfer it to Ukraine. And they work with Ukraine on the terms of the distribution of weapons, missiles, etc. But we don’t spend money, we spend time on humane goals.”

Prehistory:

• Trump said that Russia allegedly agreed to a “peace plan”, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi did not even read it.

The Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, Rustem Umyerov, said that he received information from the US about their meeting with the Russians in Moscow and plans to tell about all aspects of the dialogue and hand over the documents to Volodymyr Zelenskyi.

The head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Foreign Affairs, Oleksandr Merezhko, contradicted US President Donald Trump, who previously stated that his Ukrainian colleague Volodymyr Zelenskyy had not read the “peace plan” proposed by the American side.

Zelenskyy stated that the participants in the negotiations regarding the “peace plan”, the USA, Russia and Ukraine, do not have a single opinion regarding Donbas.

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