US President , who boasts of his close ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin and has long claimed he could easily end the war in Ukraine, called Sunday’s strike, which killed 34 people at a church celebration, “a horrible thing.”
“I was told they made a big mistake,” he said, without offering details.
“Only scoundrels can act like this, taking the lives of ordinary people,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, noting the attack took place on Palm Sunday as Christians attended church to mark the beginning of .
Zelenskyy invited Trump to come to Ukraine to see the destruction that Russia’s invasion has brought with his own eyes.
Trump has spent the last several weeks and negotiate a ceasefire, to no avail.
Zelenskyy has bent to Trump’s will so far, for example, by continuing negotiations on US access to Ukrainian minerals.
However, has not shied from publicly calling out what he says is Putin’s cynical approach of continuing attacks while demanding ever more concessions.
On Monday, Trump again blamed Zelenskyy for “letting the war start” rather than placing blame on Putin, who launched the unprovoked, full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022.
Zelenskyy on Monday called for a global response to the attack.
“Only real pressure on Russia can stop this. We need tangible sanctions against those sectors that finance the Russian killing machine,” he wrote Monday on social media.
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