One day after officially accepting the Republican nomination for president, donald trump spoke by phone on Friday with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Trump called the conversation “very good,” adding that Zelenskyy congratulated him on becoming the Republican nominee for president and condemned the assassination attempt.
“I thank President Zelenskyy for contacting me because I, as your next President of the United States, will bring peace to the world and end the war that has cost so many lives and devastated countless innocent families,” Trump said in a Twitter post. Social Truth. “Both sides can come together and negotiate an agreement that ends the violence and opens the way to prosperity.”
Zelenskyy said in a post to X that the two agreed to hold an in-person meeting in the future to discuss “what steps can make peace just and truly lasting.”
“Ukraine will always be grateful to the United States for its help in strengthening our ability to resist Russian terror,” said the Ukrainian president.
The call came almost five years later another connection between the two led to Trump’s first impeachment, and while questions arise about whether Trump continue to support military aid for Ukraine in its battle against the Russian invaders.
Trump promised that if he wins the election, the war will be “resolved” while he is still president-elect. He didn’t say how he would do it. In your debate against President Joe Biden in June, Trump criticized the large amount of military aid going to Ukraine but also said that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s terms for ending the war were “not acceptable.”
As for the president of Ukraine, Trump said: “Every time Zelenskyy comes to this country, he leaves with 60 billion dollars.
The selection of JD Vance as Trump’s running mate too raised concerns in Kiev, given his long-standing criticism of US aid to Ukraine. In preparation for the Russian invasion in 2022, Vance said in a podcast: “I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine, one way or another.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov praised Trump’s choice of Vance earlier this week, saying: “He is for peace, for ending the assistance that has been provided and we can only welcome that. That’s what we need – stop filling Ukraine with weapons. Then the war will end.”
Zelenskyy, who quickly condemned Saturday’s attack assassination attempt about Trump on social media, told reporters on Monday that he would work with whoever is elected president in November.
“If Mr. Donald Trump becomes president, then we will work with him. I’m not afraid of that,” Zelenskyy said. at a press conference in Kyiv, according to Political.
Zelenskyy said earlier this month that he did not know Trump very well but that he had “had meetings with him and we had good meetings when he was president.”
Their first interaction, however, led to first impeachment by the then democratically controlled House of Representatives. Trump was impeached on charges he abused his power pressuring Zelenskyy to announce investigations into then-presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son, while withholding nearly $400 million in aid, and that he had obstructed Congress refusing to disclose any documents relating to his actions.
Trump denied any wrongdoing and said the call was “perfect.” He was acquitted in his trial before the Senate.
Biden has been a strong ally of Ukraine, sending the country hundreds of billions of dollars in aid. He met with Zelenskyy last week at the NATO summit in Washington, D.C., and misrepresented it to the crowd as “President Putin”.
Trump said Biden’s gaffe was “not good. This was inexcusable.”
This article was originally published in NBCNews. with
