Vladimir Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, has snubbed former US President Donald Trump‘s assurance that if he wins the 2024 US presidential election, he will immediately put an end to the conflict and bring peace to Ukraine.
Zelensky, in an interview with NBC News on Thursday, claimed that if Trump were to win a second term as president, he would be unable to fulfill his campaign pledge to seal a peace accord between Kyiv and Moscow within a day.
Zelensky questioned the interviewer as to why Trump had not sealed a peace deal earlier on when he had the opportunity to do so, referring to the fighting that broke out between the two sides in Donbas in 2014.
Zelensky questioned, as reported by RT, “Why didn’t he do that earlier? He was president when the war was going on here.”.
Zelensky insisted that Trump was unable to reach a peace agreement both then and now.
I don’t think he could accomplish that. In my opinion, nobody alive today could simply speak with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and put an end to the conflict, Zelensky noted.
Trump said to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins in a town hall meeting in New Hampshire last month that if he were to win a second term as US president in 2024, “that war could be settled in one day, 24 hours.”.
Trump has asserted that he is the “only candidate” who can prevent the US from engaging in a direct conflict with Russia over the Ukrainian conflict, which he warned could turn into WWIII if the Biden administration won a second term.
On February 1, Russia began a special military operation in Ukraine. The US has given Kyiv tens of billions of dollars in military assistance as a result of Kyiv’s failure to carry out the terms of the 2014 Minsk agreements and Moscow’s recognition of the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk on April 24, 2022.
The Biden administration has maintained that no US combat troops will be sent to Ukraine to fight against the Russians, thereby averting the possibility of a direct conflict with Moscow, despite the ongoing supply of weapons and ammunition to Kyiv.
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