\u00a0Donald Trump has been asked about his statement that Vladimir Putin has “let me down”.<\/p>\n
“Well, he has let me down,” Trump replies, reaffirming his position.<\/p>\n
“He’s killing many people and he’s losing more people than he’s killing, frankly the Russian soldiers are being killed at a higher rate than the Ukrainian soldiers,” he says.<\/p>\n
Trump repeats his claim that the war would never have started if he were the president.<\/p>\n
“It’s millions of people that have died in that war, millions of souls, and they’re not American soldiers,” he says.<\/p>\n
“The soldiers are being killed at levels nobody’s seen since the Second World War. I feel I have an obligation to get it settled for that reason.”<\/p>\n
Trump reiterates something he told Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office – that the conflict could have erupted into a third world war.<\/p>\n
“That’s a war that could have been a third world war, and I don’t think we’re going to be there now,” he says.<\/p>\n
“That was heading to a third world war and what a shame it is.”<\/p>\n
Sir Keir Starmer picks up at the end of Trump’s answer and says “we have to put extra pressure on Putin”.<\/p>\n
“It’s only when the president [Trump] has put pressure on him that he’s actually shown any inclination to move,” he says.<\/p>\n
Referring to recent strikes on government buildings and the British Council in Kyiv, the PM said of Putin: “They’re not the actions of someone who wants peace.”<\/p>\n
“We’re prepared to take the lead in this,” Starmer added, referring to European allies and NATO, and efforts to guarantee any potential peace deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0Donald Trump has been asked about his statement that Vladimir Putin has “let me down”. “Well, he has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-433941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115226097941175563","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}