US President Donald Trump has accused Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj that the war started. When asked about a possible purchase of American rockets by Ukraine, Trump said: Selenskyj is always looking for rockets. “When you start a war, you have to know that you can win it. You don't start a war against someone who is 20 times the size of yourself and then hope that someone will give you a few rockets.”
Before that he hadpresented the facts differently. Trump said on a reception at a reception for the Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele in the White House: He knew that Russian President Vladimir Putin was not an angel. Selenskyj could have stopped the war, his predecessor in the White House, Joe Biden, could have stopped him and Putin shouldn't have started. “Everyone is to blame.”
But Trump's focus was above all selenskyjwhich he received in the White House at the end of February and then cited together with his Vice JD Vance in front of the cameras. To this meeting, Trump said: “We had a stormy session with this guy here. He just wanted more and more.”
Even before the meeting, Trump had accused Selenskyj and Biden that he had not prevented the war in Ukraine. “President Selenskyj and the corrupt Joe Biden did an absolutely terrible job when they allowed that this farce began,” Trump wrote on the Truth Social platform. Kremlin chief Putin ordered the invasion in February 2022.
Trump penetrates the end of the war and holds a tight wire to the Kremlin via his special envoy Steve Witkoff. Trump's government introduces a “deal” for an end of the war in several places as it is in the sense of Moscow: Ukraine should give up its striving for NATO accession and US soldiers should not be part of a possible peace force. Selenskyj recently said that, according to his impression, the Russian view of the war in the US government has prevailed.
