TL;DR
- Trump claims to have a 28-point peace plan for Ukraine that he believes Zelenskyy must approve, despite acknowledging criticisms.
- He asserts that Zelenskyy should have negotiated a deal earlier and implies that continued fighting is an option if his plan is not accepted.
- Trump stresses that Zelenskyy must ultimately accept some form of agreement, noting that he feels the war was inherited and could have been addressed sooner.
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Asked if he had spoken to Volodymyr Zelenskyy about the 28-point peace plan for Ukraine, Trump says: “We have a plan. It’s horrible, what’s happening. It’s a war that should have never happened.”
“We think we have a way of getting peace. He’s going to have to approve it.”
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Put to him by a reporter that the peace plan had received some criticism, Trump replies: “You mean he [Zelenskyy] doesn’t like it?
“He’ll have to like it, and if he doesn’t like it then they should just keep fighting I guess.”
“I thought he should have made a deal a year ago, two years ago,” Trump adds.
“At some point, he’s going to have to accept something. You remember in the Oval Office, not so long ago, I said ‘You don’t have the cards’.“
“I inherited this war. I thought he should have made a deal a year ago, two years ago,” Trump added.