Donald Trump said once he assumes office next month, the Ukraine crisis would be his number one priority to solve and describe the Middle East as a “less difficult situation.”
“I think we have to solve the Ukraine problem with Russia,” the US president-elect told French magazine Paris Match in an interview recorded on Saturday and released on Wednesday.
Trump replied to a question about his top priority on the international stage and said, “Both those countries are losing numbers that nobody can believe. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers are being killed.”
“And the Middle East is of course a big priority. But I think that the Middle East is a less difficult situation than Ukraine with Russia,” Trump said. “But those are the two situations that we have to solve and we have to solve them quickly. A lot of people are dying.”
Trump travelled to Paris for the Saturday reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral, which had been extremely badly disfigured by a fire in 2019. During his visit, he met with French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. This marked his first international trip since being re-elected.
“We had a good meeting with President Zelensky,” Trump said. On Tuesday, Zelensky expressed gratitude for Trump’s “strong resolve” to end the war in Ukraine.
Trump once boasted he could end the Ukraine conflict in 24 hours. On Sunday he wrote on his Truth Social platform that “there should be an immediate ceasefire and negotiations should begin.” He also reiterated his appeal for Washington to avoid intervening in Syria, where rebels overthrew longtime president Bashar al-Assad in a swift offensive over the weekend.
“Syria will have to take care of itself,” Trump said in the interview. “We are not involved in Syria.”
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