{"id":23712,"date":"2025-03-08T21:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T21:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=23712"},"modified":"2025-03-08T21:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T21:45:15","slug":"donald-trump-says-the-us-is-doing-very-well-with-russia-after-pausing-military-aid-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=23712","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump says the US is \u2018doing very well with Russia\u2019 after pausing military aid to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Donald Trump reckons it’s much easier to deal with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin rather than Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0US<\/a>\u00a0President, 78, didn’t mince his words when it came to discussing which leader he is more fond of in the Oval Office on Friday (7 March).<\/p>\n

And considering he was speaking to reporters from the same location he and\u00a0Zelenskyy<\/a>\u00a0had\u00a0verbally sparred in a week prior<\/a>, it’s hardly that surprising.<\/p>\n

Take a look at\u00a0Trump<\/a>\u00a0going toe to toe with Zelenskyy here if you need a refresher:<\/p>\n

There’s been a lot of developments since the pair\u00a0locked horns in the White House<\/a>\u00a0on 28 February, including the\u00a0suspension of all US military aid<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It had been reported\u00a0by<\/a>\u00a0the New York Times that over\u00a0$1 billion<\/a>\u00a0(\u00a3787.3 million) in arms and ammunition will be withheld, forcing the war-torn country to turn to private contractors instead.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko warned that this would be ‘catastrophic’<\/a>\u00a0for the nation, although a White House official\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0Fox News it was ‘not a permanent termination of aid’ but a ‘pause’.<\/p>\n

Trump has now also pulled the plug on Ukraine’s access to some\u00a0satellite imagery<\/a>, according\u00a0to<\/a>\u00a0the BBC.<\/p>\n

In his latest comments regarding the prospect of achieving peace between\u00a0Putin<\/a>\u00a0and Zelenskyy’s countries, the President seemed to flip-flop between who’s side he was on.<\/p>\n

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Trump said he find it ‘easier’ to deal with Russia rather than Ukraine (ROBERTO SCHMIDT\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

He explained he was ‘strongly considering large-scale sanctions<\/a>‘ and tariffs on\u00a0Russia<\/a>\u00a0until\u00a0a deal is brokered<\/a>, because the country had been ‘pounding’ Ukraine as of late.<\/p>\n

It came after Ukraine’s energy infrastructure was battered by a large-scale missile and drone attack on Thursday (6 March) night.<\/p>\n

But just hours later, Trump had drastically changed his tune and said that other people would be doing the same if they were in Putin’s position.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re doing very well with Russia,” Trump said. “But right now they\u2019re bombing the hell out of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

“I think he [Putin] wants to get it stopped and settled and I think he\u2019s hitting them harder than he\u2019s been hitting them. I think probably anybody in that position would be doing that right now.”<\/p>\n

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The US President pictured with Vladimir Putin in 2018 (Chris McGrath\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

When asked why he had\u00a0cut off military aid<\/a>, the President responded: “I want to know [Ukraine] want to settle and I don’t know they want to settle.”<\/p>\n

Trump went on to say that he finds it ‘easier’ to work with Putin rather than Zelenskyy, as the Russian leader ‘wants to end the war’.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m finding it more difficult, frankly, to deal with Ukraine,” he said. “And they don\u2019t have the cards.<\/p>\n

“In terms of getting a final settlement, it may be easier dealing with Russia.”<\/p>\n

The commander-in-chief said he has ‘always had a good\u00a0relationship<\/a>‘ with Putin, adding: “He wants to end the war. And I think he\u2019s going to be more generous than he has to be.”<\/p>\n

Next week, senior US and Ukrainian officials are set to sit down in Saudi Arabia in the hopes of smoothing things over following Trump’s row with Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n

Here’s to hoping that pans out better than the one in the Oval Office did, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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