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US President Donald Trump said in an interview with CBS News that he was close to reaching an agreement between Ukraine and Russia. As a result of such an agreement, Ukraine’s borders could change.
“I think we’re gonna have it done, and I think it’s gonna happen and they’re gonna end up with a little bit different shape Ukraine. Look, this is a war that shoulda never happened. If I were president – this war would have never happened,” he said.
In the interview, Trump repeatedly stressed that the war would not have started if he had been president between 2021 and 2025. According to him, the main obstacle to peace is the hatred between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin.
He was also asked whom he trusted more: the president of Ukraine or the president of Russia.
“Well, I’d rather not say, but I get along with both,” he replied.
Trump also said he did not think Putin was deceiving him.
The US president was also asked about the diesel fuel deal with Russia.
“ I didn’t lift diesel sanctions. I made it possible for Russia to give not us, but to the world– thousands and thousands of barrels of oil, of diesel, which it needed. Didn’t– do any big favor,” he said.
Another topic was the incident involving speed restrictions on Starlink and Starshield services for Ukraine. Trump declined to answer who had specifically ordered the reduction in data transmission speeds for the Ukrainian military. The US president said he did not know what had happened, that it was definitely not him, and that it was unlikely to have been Elon Musk.
“It has not been proven that the speed was actually reduced. There are a lot of lies in this war. But I know one thing: when I heard about it, the speed was increased again,” he said.