Putin argues that Trump says that the Ukraine war would not occur if he was president
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said he agreed with Donald Trump’s assertion that the war in Ukraine did not even have started if he had not lost the 2020 elections and was president at the start of the carnage, instead of former president Joe Biden.
“I can confirm it,” said Putin at the end of a press conference that took place Friday evening after the pair met for a summit with Elmendorf-Richardson base in Anchorage, Alaska.
Trump made this statement several times on the campaign track and continued to say it after taking over the White House. Trump has faced a decline in the complaint, as well as the affirmations that Ukraine triggered the creation of the war and the Biden administration has not done things that could have thwarted it from the start.
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President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met at a press conference at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Friday, August 15, 2025. (AP photo / Julia Demaoree Nikhinson)
“I would like to add one more thing,” said Putin, while the two heads of state made comments to the press, according to a translation of the address of the Russian president. “I would like to remind you that in 2022, during the last contact with a previous administration, I tried to convince my previous American colleague that the situation should not be put on a return point when it would happen to hostilities and I said it quite directly when it is a big mistake. Today, when President Trump says that if he was the president.”
Earlier in his speech, Putin deplored that bilateral relations between the United States and Russia, before Trump, “fell at the lowest point since the Cold War” and stressed the fact that there had been no heights between the United States and Russia in the last four years.
Trump shakes hands with the president of the time, Joe Biden, during the inauguration of Trump in the rotunda of the American Capitol on January 20, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Kenny Holston-Pool / Getty images)
“This does not benefit our counties and the world as a whole,” said Putin, adding that it was “obvious that sooner or later (us and Russia) had to change the situation to move from confrontation to dialogue.”
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Meanwhile, Putin congratulated Trump for “her effort to reach the question of the question and understand this story”, referring to the background surrounding war. He described the commitment of “precious”.
The Russian president also pointed out during his speech that he hopes that this new chapter of foreign diplomacy under Trump “will help us to rebuild and promote mutually beneficial and equal links to this new stage, even in the most difficult conditions”.
“Overall, me and President Trump have established very good contact with companies and trustworthy, and have every reason to believe that the passage on this path, we can reach the end of the conflict in Ukraine,” Putin said on Friday.
President Donald Trump salutes Russian President Vladimir Putin on the Tarmac after their arrival at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, August 15, 2025. Putin is in Alaska at the invitation of Trump during his first visit to a Western country since he ordered Ukraine Invasion 2022 who killed tons of thousands of people. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images)
Trump’s meeting perspective with Putin was criticized by criticism, who compared the scene on Friday when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Trump in the White House.
The infamous meeting has seen Zelenskyy publicly competing for the round trips with Trump and other senior administration leaders, while President Trump criticized the Ukrainian president for his approach to end the war.
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“Biden could have stopped him, Zelenskyy could have stopped him, and Putin should never have started him,” Trump said in April about the war in Ukraine.
