Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ripped Vladimir Putin as a “murderer” following President Trump’s comparison of Ukraine’s war with Russia to two kids “fighting like crazy” in a playground.
“We are not kids with Putin at the playground in the park,” Zelensky said in a clip from “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” released Friday.
“He is a murderer who came to this park to kill the kids.”
Zelensky’s scorching remarks came after Trump characterized the world leaders as children fighting on a playground and suggested more time may be needed before “pulling them apart.”
“Sometimes you see two young children fighting like crazy. They hate each other, and they’re fighting in a park, and you try and pull them apart. They don’t want to be pulled,” Trump told reporters Thursday while hosting German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office.
“Sometimes you’re better off letting them fight for a while and then pulling them apart. And I gave that analogy to Putin yesterday. I said, ‘President, maybe you have to keep fighting and suffering a lot’ because both sides are suffering, before you pull them apart before they’re able to be pulled apart.”
Trump was referring to a Wednesday phone call he had with Putin, after which he acknowledged was “not a conversation that will lead to immediate Peace” between the two nations.
Zelensky’s full ABC News interview will air Sunday.
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