Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected US President Donald Trump’s comparison of the war with Russia to kids fighting, but labeled Russian President Vladimir Putin a child ‘murderer’.
Zelensky strongly refuted Trump’s analogy involving him and Putin in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.
‘Sometimes you see two young children fighting like crazy,’ Trump said during an Oval Office meeting on Thursday.
‘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. Sometimes you’re better off letting them fight for a while and then pulling them apart.’
Zelensky was asked in an interview airing on Sunday if Trump was ‘getting the message’ of the suffering in Ukraine.
‘We are not kids with Putin at the playground in the park,’ Zelensky told ABC News’ This Week with George Stephanopoulos co-host Martha Raddatz in a clip released on Friday.
‘He is a murderer who came to this park to kill the kids.’
Zelensky added that Trump ‘could not feel fully and understand this pain’.
‘And it’s not about President Trump, it’s about any person who is not here in the country, who is some thousands of miles away — cannot feel fully and understand this pain.’
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