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Trump attacks Ukraine for ‘refusing to make a deal’ to end war

Donald Trump has accused Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of refusing to strike a deal to end the war with Russia and casting “aspersions” against him as he increased his attacks on Kyiv ahead of the US election.

Speaking at an event in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Wednesday, Trump launched one of his most scathing attacks of the Ukraine’s leader, who on Thursday is set to meet Joe Biden, the US president, and vice-president Kamala Harris — Trump’s Democratic rival for the White House.

“We continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refuses to make a deal: Zelenskyy,” Trump told the audience.

“There was no deal that he could have made that wouldn’t have been better than the situation you have right now. You have a country that has been obliterated.”

Trump has repeatedly said in recent months that if he is elected to a second term he will immediately seek a settlement between Moscow and Kyiv, but he has boosted that message on the campaign trail in recent days. “We’re stuck in that war unless I’m president,” he said at a separate campaign event in Georgia on Tuesday. “I’ll get it done, I’ll get it negotiated, I’ll get out.

We’ve got to get out.” Trump appears to have been angered by Zelenskyy’s comments at the start of his visit to the US in which he questioned the former president’s ability to quickly broker an agreement.

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