The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, refuted the characterization of President Donald Trump of the war between Russia and Ukraine when he compared the countries with “two young people who fight like crazy” and say “sometimes it is better to let them fight for a while.”
In an exclusive interview that is broadcast on Sunday in “This week with George Stephanopoulos”, co-presenter Martha Raddatz asked Zelenskyy if Trump “is receiving the message” of suffering in Ukraine based on his comments from the Oval office.
The full interview between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Martha Raddatz, co-presenter this week with George Stephanopoulos, will be broadcast on Sunday morning this week.
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“We are not children with Putin in the playground in the park,” Zelenskyy said Friday. “He is a murderer who came to this park to kill the children.”
Zelenskyy described the “unlimited” pain of a Ukrainian father who lost his wife and three children in a missile strike.
The words of man to Zelenskyy were “different” that the way officials speak of loss, said the Ukrainian leader.
“I didn’t mention any statistics or number of strikes.”
“He just said: ‘Every morning, when I wake up, I’m just looking for my family, I’m looking everywhere on the floor … I still feel it was a nightmare … A bad dream,” Zelenskyy said, the man told him.
The full interview between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Martha Raddatz, co-presenter this week with George Stephanopoulos, will be broadcast on Sunday morning this week.
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Trump “could not feel completely and understand this pain,” said Zelenskyy.
“And it is not about President Trump, it is any person who is not here in the country, who is thousands of miles away, [they] You can’t feel completely and understand this pain, “he said.
The Ukrainian president told Raddatz that 631 Ukrainian children have died in the war, and that Russia often points to civilians in their offensive.
In a recent study, the Estimated Strategic and International Studies Center Between 60,000 and 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died in the war, and up to 250,000 Russian troops have died from the fighting.
