Ukraine War Would Not Have Happened If Trump Was At Helm In 2022: Putin

At the joint press conference that was held after the Alaska meet with US President Donald Trump, his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin said that the conflict in Ukraine would not have started if Trump would have been the President of the United States in 2022. Trump has repeatedly claimed that he would have averted the Russia-Ukraine conflict that happened when former President Joe Biden was in office. Putin reaffirmed his belief in the claim. He said that he had tried to convince Biden to avoid making the situation escalate to a point in which "serious consequences in the form of military actions could occur."