Trump: 'It's Been Harder' To Deal With Ukraine's Zelensky

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Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, President Trump said that dealing with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been "harder" than he expected.

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00:00important to me. And on the war in Ukraine, are you going to be meeting with President Zelenskyy?

00:05He's asked to meet with you this weekend. Will you be meeting with him? I don't know. I don't

00:08know that he's going to the funeral or not, but I just hope he gets this thing solved because we're

00:14losing about, think of this, 5,000. I was saying 2,500 and everyone was telling me that's low.

00:225,000 soldiers are being killed every week approximately. Think of that. Every week,

00:285,000 soldiers, but let's say from 3,000 to 5,000 are being killed. They're Russian and Ukrainian.

00:35They're not Americans, but they're Russian, but they're people. And they're humans. They're human

00:39beings. They have families. They wave goodbye to their son, and then they get a call that the son's

00:45no longer there. It's a vicious war. And if I can help solve it, you know, we're not losing our

00:51soldiers, but we're losing soldiers, a lot of people. And if I can solve it because of a certain

00:55ability, that would be great. And if it doesn't happen, I will say that I think Russia is ready.

01:02And a lot of people said Russia wanted to go for the whole thing. And they've, I think we have a deal

01:10with Russia. We have to get a deal with Zelensky. And I hope that Zelensky, I thought it might be easier

01:15to deal with Zelensky so far. It's been harder, but that's okay. It's all right. But, but, uh, I think

01:22we have a deal with both. I hope they do it because I'm looking to save, and you know, we spend a lot

01:27of money, but this is about a lot of humanity. This is the worst. I get the pictures, the satellite

01:34pictures. I've never seen anything like it of the fields after these, some of these battles. It's

01:40horrible that it's going for nothing. We would have never had this problem. You would have never had

01:45that war if I were president. I guarantee you that. And for four years, you didn't have it.

01:48Are you hoping to meet the Vladimir Putin? Are you hoping to meet the Vladimir Putin in Saudi Arabia?

01:55It's possible, but most likely not. I think we'll meet with him shortly thereafter.

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