Putin supports Trump’s claim that Ukraine war wouldn’t have happened if it were president

Russian President Vladimir Putin He said he agreed with Donald Trump that the war in Ukraine would not even start as president if he hadn’t lost the 2020 election and when the massacres began as president, rather than former President Joe Biden.

“I can confirm that,” Putin said at a press conference Friday night at Elmendorf-Richardson, a joint base in Anchorage, Alaska.

Trump made several claims during the campaign and continued to say after he took it back White House. Trump’s claim and Ukraine incited the war to start, and the Biden administration did not do anything that could have thwarted the issue from the outset.

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“I want to add one more thing,” Putin said, according to the translation of the Russian president’s speech. “I want to remind you that in 2022, during my last contact with the previous administration, I tried to convince my former American colleagues that when hostilities encounter hostilities, the situation should not make the situation irrelevant, and I directly say that this is a big mistake. Today, when President Trump It was said that if he was president, there would be no war – I’m pretty sure it was. I can confirm. ”

Putin lamented early in his speech that before Trump, bilateral relations between the United States and Russia “slid to their lowest point since the Cold War” and stressed the fact that there has been no summit between the United States and Russia in the past four years.

Trump shook hands with then-President Joe Biden at the Trump inauguration ceremony in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kenny Holdston Pool/Getty Image)

“This does not benefit our county and the world as a whole,” Putin said. [U.S. and Russia] The situation had to be modified from confrontation to dialogue. ”

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Meanwhile, Putin praised Trump for “his efforts to solve problems and understand this history”, referring to the backstory surrounding the war. He called the promise “precious.”

The Russian president also said in his speech that he hopes diplomatic Under Trump’s leadership, even under the toughest conditions, in this new stage, in this new stage, we will help us rebuild and promote mutually beneficial and equal connections. ”

“In general, I have made a very good business and trustworthy connection with President Trump and there is good reason to believe that following this path we can go to the end of the conflict in Ukraine,” Putin said on Friday.

President Donald Trump arrived at the joint base of Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska on August 15, 2025 to Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 15, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

Optics at Trump’s meeting with Putin came under critics, who compared Friday’s scene with the Ukrainian president’s scene Volodymyr Zelenskyy Meet Trump at the White House.

The infamous meeting has led Zelenskyy to openly debate back and forth with Trump and other top leaders in the administration, who criticized the Ukrainian president for his way of ending the war.

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“Biden could have stopped it, Zelens could have basically stopped it, and Putin shouldn’t have started,” Trump said in April about the war in Ukraine.