President Donald Trump suggested that Ukraine should have opted not to fight back against Russia's invasion.
Zelensky says Putin wants to 'manipulate' Trump amid talk of peace negotiations. President Volodymyr Zelensky's warning came after Putin expressed willingness to engage in talks with Donald Trump on Jan. 24 and praised the U.S. leader.
-- The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) January 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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@#3 ... "Zelensky was fighting a much bigger entity, much bigger, much more powerful," Trump told Hannity ...
Does Pres Trump know that during the early days of Pres Putin's unprovoked invasion of a sovereign Ukraine, Pres Putin tried to assasinate Pres Zelensky multiple times (and, fortunately, failed in those attempts)?
Assassination attempts on Volodymyr Zelenskyy
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... According to Ukrainian government officials and news sources, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has survived a number of assassination and kidnapping attempts by Russian or pro-Russian agents during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[1][2]
Background
In order to achieve a quick victory during the invasion of Ukraine, Russia planned to have groups enter the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv and destroy Ukraine's leadership.[3] Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak stated that "Russia's key intention [was] to remove the country's top leadership, create maximum panic, and try to establish its own puppet government".[4] ...
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