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These are human beings that are just being slaughtered on this battlefield by the millions. They've already died, and the cities — the cities are like demolition sites,
he said in an interview that aired Thursday on "Hannity." Putin shouldn't have done it, too. I mean, I'm not blaming only what — Putin shouldn't have done it. He shouldn't have done it, and it has to stop,
We’re going to work very much with both parties to try and get this settled and get it worked out,
Trump had said to reporters before the two men met Zelenskyy was fighting a much bigger entity, much bigger, much more powerful,
I could have made that deal so easily, and Zelenskyy decided that, 'I want to fight,'
First of all, he’s fighting a much bigger entity, okay, much bigger. When he was, you know, talking so brave ... Zelensky was fighting a much bigger entity, much bigger, much more powerful. He shouldn’t have done that, because we could have made a deal, and it would have been a deal that would have been, it would have been a nothing deal,
We have always said that we are ready for negotiations and compromises,
Putin said at the time, after saying Yes, he’s ready to negotiate a deal. He’d like to stop this,
I think they have a lot of power over Russia, so I think Russia should want to make a deal,
Soldiers are being killed on a daily basis at numbers that we haven’t seen in decades,
We'd like to see denuclearisation ... and I will tell you President Putin really liked the idea of cutting way back on nuclear. And I think the rest of the world, we would have gotten them to follow, and China would have come along too,
Our effort to reach a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine are now hopefully underway. It is so important to get that done. Millions of soldiers are getting killed. Millions of Russians and millions of Ukrainians. It has to end,
What they're saying ... Trump said in his video address to Davos attendees He liked the idea of cutting down... Putin wanted to do it. China would have joined. It would have been an unbelievable thing for the planet,
We're going to be talking with President Putin very soon, and we'll see what, how it all happens. We're going to look at it.”
Well, we'll look into that. We're talking to Zelensky,
I’m not looking to hurt Russia,
Easy way or the hard way
Trump squares up to Putin with chilling threat I think Russia's going to be in big trouble,
I really would like to be able to meet with President Putin soon to get that war ended, and that's not from the standpoint of economy or anything else. It's from the standpoint of millions of lives are being wasted."
In a highly anticipated address via videolink to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump said Zelenskyy told me he wants to make a deal.” ... I don’t know if Putin does … He might not. I think he should make a deal. I think he’s destroying Russia by not making a deal,
But, he added in the Oval Office on the first day of his second presidency ... a reference to the country’s failing economy and inflation
