Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly declared he could end the war between Russia and Ukraine in one day. He has made this claim on the campaign trail, at his political rallies, and again last week in the debate against President Joe Biden. However, Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations disputed Trump’s statement, saying the former president wouldn’t be able to end the war in a day.
“I will have that war settled between Putin and Zelenskiy as president-elect before I take office on Jan. 20. I’ll have that war settled,” Trump said during the debate. “I’ll get it settled fast before I take office.”
During a press conference at the U.N. on Monday in which the Russian Federation assumed the U.N. Security Council presidency, Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia was asked about Trump’s assertion on ending the war. He rejected the idea.
“We heard it before,” Nebenzia quipped.
He then elaborated on the potential for ending the war and why it would be impossible to do so in one day.
“The Ukrainian crisis cannot be solved in one day,” Nebenzia said. “That’s subjective. President Putin recently said where we are in the Ukrainian crisis of today. It could have been solved, as you are well aware, in April 2022 in Istanbul, where we were very close to an agreement.”
He then blamed the West, particularly former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, for the peace negotiations’ failure.
“But then Western sponsors of Ukraine interfered, in particular Boris Johnson, who told Ukrainians, who told the Kyiv regime to continue fighting Russia,” he said. “There was the Bucha provocation that was formerly the reason for them to exit the negotiations and the agreement that was 95% ready.”
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“Now Zelensky and the regime are running around with his so-called peace plan, which is, of course, not a peace plan but a joke,” Nebenzia said.
Trump and his campaign have not commented in response to Nebenzia’s comment about the former president being unable to end the war in a day.