The American president “said he was ready to work together,” Vladimir Putin said Friday in an interview on state television.
“We have always said, and I want to emphasize it again, that we are ready for these negotiations on Ukrainian issues,” he added.
Mr. Trump’s positions are difficult to define at this stage. His country is Ukraine’s primary military supporter and he has criticized this aid several times, but he also recently threatened Moscow with more sanctions for failure to reach an agreement with kyiv.
-Vladimir Putin assured him that the “crisis in Ukraine” of 2022, the year the conflict began, could have been avoided if Donald Trump “had been president, if they had not stolen his victory in 2020”.
He thus took up the American president’s unfounded assertions about alleged electoral fraud in 2020.
