NewzWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday it was time for Ukraine to get a new president, suggesting Volodymyr Zelenskyy has not done enough to end his country’s war with Russia and blaming him for high diesel prices in the U.S.“I suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal because he could have made many deals and for some reason he never does,” Trump said.The president, who on Friday struck a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin to buy diesel from Russia in an attempt to address high fuel prices ahead of the U.S. midterm elections, has been urging Zelenskyy for weeks to stop strikes on Russian energy infrastructure. He has also sought to blame record U.S.
diesel prices on Ukraine rather than the U.S.-led war in Iran, which has elevated world energy prices.“He wants to make problems for the world. He wants to make problems for our farmers, our ranchers, with diesel fuel,” Trump said, before departing for Tennessee where he was set to rally Republican voters.An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll conducted last month and published Oct. 1 found that Americans disapprove of Trump’s handling of Iran, and blame him for higher prices.Trump also suggested that if he had been U.S.
president in 2022, “that war would have never started. There was no reason that that war with Ukraine and Russia started. It started due to incompetence.”Zelenskyy has “lost 30% of your country and you’ve had over a million people go between the two of them, over 2 million people killed.
That’s a war that should have never started. And I think it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president," Trump said.Independent estimates are that about 20% of Ukraine's territory is under Russian control. British defense officials recently estimated that about half a million Russian soldiers have been killed in the war; there are no reliable recent estimates about how many Ukrainians have died.20 people killed in Russian bombing in Ukraine SaturdayTrump's extraordinary intervention came after Russian strikes killed at least 20 people in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, Ukrainian officials said Saturday.Three children were among those killed when Russian aerial bombs hit residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said Saturday.
At least 18 people were wounded.Russia and Ukraine are locked in a long-range aerial war while their … WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president, suggesting current Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has not done enough to end huis country’s war with Russia.Speaking at the White House Saturday, Trump said, “I suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal,″ adding that ”for some reason (Zelenskyy) never does."Trump also suggested that if he had been U.S. And I think it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president.”THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE.
AP’s earlier story follows below.Russian strikes killed at least 20 people in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, Ukrainian officials said Saturday, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a deal to buy Russian diesel that Kyiv warned would help bankroll Moscow’s war in Ukraine.Three children were among those killed when Russian aerial bombs hit residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said Saturday. At least 18 people were wounded.Missiles also struck Kyiv in a daytime attack Saturday.
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