Zelensky dimisses Trump’s claim to restore Ukraine’s ‘peace in 24 hours’
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has dismissed former US President Donald Trump’s promise to immediately end the war and restore peace in Ukraine if he returns to power in the 2024 US presidential election.
Speaking to NBC News on Thursday, Zelensky said if Trump is re-elected as president, he could not make good on his promise to cinch a peace deal in 24 hours between Kiev and Moscow.
Referring to the fighting that erupted between the two sides in Donbas in 2014, Zelensky asked the interviewer why Trump had not cinched a peace deal before when he had the chance to do it.
“Why didn’t he do that earlier? He was president when the war was going on here,” Zelensky asked as quoted by RT.
Zelensky insisted that Trump could not reach a peace deal then, and he cannot reach a peace deal now.
“I think he couldn’t do that. I think there are no people today in the world who could just have a word with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and end the war,” Zelensky pointed out.
In the New Hampshire town hall event last month, Trump told CNN's Kaitlan Collins that he could “have that war settled in one day, 24 hours,” if he is elected as US president for a second term in 2024.
Trump has claimed to be the “only candidate” capable of keeping the US out of a direct conflict with Russia in Ukraine, which he warned could escalate into WWIII if the Biden administration remained in power for a second term.
Since Russia launched its special military operation in Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, following Kiev’s failure to implement the terms of the 2014 Minsk agreements and Moscow’s recognition of the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, the US has provided Kiev with tens of billions of dollars of military aid.
In spite of the continued supply of weapons and munitions to Kiev, the Biden administration has been saying that there will be no US combat troops sent to Ukraine to fight against the Russians, thus eliminating the chances of a direct war with Moscow.
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