Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed Friday that \u201cthe crisis in Ukraine\u201d might have been prevented if Donald Trump was in power at the time, saying he was ready to talk with the new US president about the conflict. <\/p>\n
Trump has long claimed that the war in Ukraine would not have happened under his watch, but Friday marked the first time Putin suggested the same thing \u2013 while also repeating Trump\u2019s false claim that the 2020 US election was \u201cstolen.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t help but agree with (Trump) that if his victory had not been stolen in 2020, then maybe there would not have been the crisis in Ukraine that arose in 2022,\u201d Putin told a Russian TV channel, presumably referring to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine which he himself had ordered in February 2022. <\/p>\n
Trump has said in the past that he would end the war in Ukraine in one day, but then gave his special envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg 100 days to find a solution. <\/p>\n
The new administration has so far not unveiled any concrete plan for how to achieve peace in Ukraine, but Trump said this week that Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelensky had told him he wants to make a deal and suggested Putin should also want to find a solution. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo, I think Russia should want to make a deal. Maybe they want to make a deal. I think from what I hear, Putin would like to see me. We\u2019ll meet as soon as we can. I\u2019d meet immediately. Every day we don\u2019t meet soldiers are being killed in a battlefield,\u201d Trump told reporters on Thursday. <\/p>\n
Putin seemed amenable to meeting Trump, saying Russia was \u201calways open to this.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cAs for the issue related to negotiations – we have always said, and I will emphasize this once again, that we are ready for negotiations on the Ukrainian issue,\u201d the Russian leader told the Russian TV channel. A day earlier the Kremlin said it was waiting on \u201csignals\u201d from Washington. <\/p>\n
The statement from Putin came a day after Trump made a threat of new sanctions against Moscow while addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos. <\/p>\n
However, Putin questioned that warning on Friday, saying such a move would hurt the American economy. \u201cHe is not only a smart person, he is a pragmatic person, and I can hardly imagine that decisions will be made that will harm the American economy itself,\u201d Putin said. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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