{"id":665113,"date":"2025-12-31T17:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/665113\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T17:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:26:11","slug":"trump-makes-most-ridiculous-claim-about-russia-and-ukraine-yet-and-zelenskys-reaction-says-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/665113\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump makes most ridiculous claim about Russia and Ukraine yet \u2013 and Zelensky\u2019s reaction says it all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> has made some bold claims about Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in the past, not least claiming that he\u2019d be able to stop the war in 24 hours before being elected as president. Evidently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/politics\/trump\/donald-trump-russia-ukraine-war\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">that\u2019s not proving the case<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>However, one of his comments from his most recent meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky at Mar-a-Lago is coming in for ridicule online and a subtle reaction from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/topic\/volodymyr-zelensky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zelensky<\/a> himself also spoke volumes.<\/p>\n<p>The comment in question? Trump claimed that Putin\u2019s Russia \u201cwants Ukraine to do well\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>This is the same Russia that orchestrated a huge strike on Kyiv a day earlier which appeared to hit a Kyiv apartment block, engulfing buildings in flames, killing two people and drew accusations that Vladimir Putin had no interest in ending the war.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about that strike by a journalist, Trump replied: \u201cI could say that Ukraine has leveled some pretty strong attacks also,\u201d Trump countered to a reporter who asked on Sunday about a strike one day earlier that appeared to hit a Kyiv apartment block, engulfing buildings in flames.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia wants Ukraine to succeed,\u201d Trump claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky jerked his head in apparent surprise at the comment, and drew quite the reaction on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The Call to Activism account claimed it was the &#8220;dumbest&#8221; thing Trump had ever said. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the meeting, Zelensky said he and Trump discussed all aspects of the peace framework and that the 20-point draft plan was 90 per cent agreed, while US-Ukraine security guarantees were \u201c100 per cent agreed\u201d and US-Europe-Ukraine security guarantees were \u201calmost agreed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said it was \u201cvery complicated stuff\u201d but agreed it \u201ccould be close to 95 per cent\u201d done.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why not read\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/news\/indy100-news-updates-whatsapp-channel\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>How to join<\/strong><\/a><strong> the indy100&#8217;s free WhatsApp channel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/newsletters?itm_channel=native&amp;itm_campaign=footer&amp;itm_audience=prospecting&amp;itm_content=newsletters\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sign up<\/strong><\/a><strong> to our free indy100 weekly newsletter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has made some bold claims about Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in the past, not least claiming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[32,332,657,21151],"class_list":{"0":"post-665113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-russia","10":"tag-ukraine","11":"tag-zelensky"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115815355880017067","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665113","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=665113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}