Trump: ‘Don’t Know’ if Russia Is Dragging Feet on Deal, ‘Could Be’ But I Think They Want End to War

Kelly: “I know the conversations are ongoing, but — and you can’t say everything, you don’t want to say everything, probably, about diplomacy, but we’re hearing that maybe Russia is dragging its feet at this point and Zelenskyy has shown some openness, especially after what happened in the Oval Office a few weeks ago. Is that accurate at this point?”
Trump: “I don’t know. I mean, I’ll let you know at a certain point, but I think that Russia wants to see an end to it, but it could be they’re dragging their feet. I’ve done it over the years, you know, I don’t want to sign a contract, I want to sort of stay in the game, but maybe I don’t wanna do it, quite, I’m not sure. But no, I think Russia would like to see an end, and I think Zelenskyy would like to see an end at this point. We had a case last week where Ukrainian soldiers were surrounded by Russian soldiers, and this was not good, and I think I had a big impact on not having all of them killed. But they were killed. This is a bloody war. You know, they lose 2,500 people on average a week. Think of that. 2,500. They’re not Americans, but it doesn’t matter to me from that standpoint. They’re Russians and Ukrainians and they’re killing each other at levels that, you know, you just don’t see. There’s been nothing like it since the Second World War. It’s almost like — I see the pictures of the battlefields, I’d rather not even see them, where you have arms and legs and heads all over the field. Their weaponry is ridiculous. It’s a big drone deal now, you know, drones are taking over the world. And I just want to see it stopped. I also don’t want to pay. You know, Biden paid $350B, Europe paid $100B, and I said, ‘Why didn’t they equalize? Why were we so far ahead of of Europe?’ Then I found out that Europe, as you know, took loans, in other words, they gave it in the form of loans, we didn’t. But I was able to make a deal for rare earth, which will be a good. At least we don’t feel so stupid.”iprocal, which is gonna, be reciprocal, in fact, I’l