Trump says he "gets along very well with Putin"

Former U.S. president and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he "gets along very well" with russian dictator vladimir putin. At the same time, according to him, he also has a good relationship with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

This is reported by The Telegraph.

Thus, speaking at a town event in the city of Oaks, eastern Pennsylvania, the former president confirmed his relationship with the russian leader and said that the invasion of Ukraine would never have happened under him.

"I get along very well with Putin," he told his supporters, many of whom were wearing Trump's "Make America Great Again" caps.

Speaking about putin's decision to invade Ukraine full-scale, he said: "He talked about it as the apple of his eye, but I said, 'You're not going in.'

"It’s only because of Biden, [Putin] looked at this guy, he can’t even believe it,” he added.

At the same time, Trump said that he also has a good relationship with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and said that he will end the war in Eastern Europe before he is elected president.

"Biden has done nothing about it - he hasn’t even spoken to Putin in over a year,” he said. “This is a war that has to end and I’m going to get that war ended...I’m going to try to get that war ended as president elect," Trump said.

He continued: "I want people to stop dying, that's all."

Trump's comments came after excerpts from journalist Bob Woodward's upcoming book, War, revealed that Trump had several conversations with Putin after he left office.

News of those conversations has been used by Kamala Harris and her supporters to attack the Republican nominee in recent days.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, in 2020, former U.S. President Donald Trump allegedly gave russian dictator vladimir putin tests to detect COVID-19, because putin was "horrified" by the pandemic.

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