Donald Trump said Volodimir Zelenski shared the blame with Russian President Vladimir Putin for “millions of dead” in Ukraine.
The US President was answering questions from reporters during a meeting with El Salvador leader in the White House.
“When you start a war you knew you can win,” he said, accusing the former US president Joe Biden for the conflict.
Trump's comments come after broad outrage The most rustic Russian attack At civilians this year, when rockets hit the northeastern Ukrainian city of sums on Sunday.
Trump said the Russian attack was a “mistake” earlier.
“Millions of people are dead because of three people,” Trump said on Monday. “Let's say Putin number one, let's say Biden, who had no idea what the hell is doing, number two and Zelenski.”
It is estimated that hundreds of thousands, but not “millions” of people, have been killed or wounded from all countries since Russia began a full -scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
Asking the jurisdiction of Zelenski, Trump noted that the Ukrainian leader “is always looking to buy rockets.”
“You don't start a war against someone 20 times the bigger than your size and then you hope people will give you some rockets,” Trump said.
The tension between Trump and the Ukrainian leader is high of them Heated confrontation in the White House in February.
In an interview before Russia's last attack, Zelenski called on Trump to visit Ukraine before making a deal with Putin to end the war.
“Please, before any kind of decisions, all kinds of forms of negotiations, come to see people, civilians, warriors, hospitals, churches, children, destroyed or dead,” Zelenski said in an interview with a program for 60 minutes of CBS.
Russia's attack against the city amounts killed at least 35 people and injured 117 othersS
Moscow said she had fired two Iskander missiles at a meeting of Ukrainian soldiers, killing 60 of them, but did not provide any evidence.
Trump insisted that he wants to “stop the murder” and signals that there will be proposals soon, but he has not developed.