UNITED NATIONS – President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the countries of the NATO They have to tear down the Russian aircraft That they violate their airspace, during a meeting with the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, within the framework of the UN General Assembly.
The tension between NATO and Russia has increased in recent weeks after several Russian devices, fighters and drones, have been detected without permission flying over airspace from Eastern countries that are members of the United States in the Mutual Defense Treaty.
“Yes, I believe it,” Trump replied when a journalist asked him if the members of the treaty have to reduce the Russian ships in case of rape of the territory.
However, it has not made it clear if the United States will help NATO countries in this purpose. “It will depend on the circumstances, but we support NATO. NATO has taken a step forward,” he said, highlighting the increase in defense spending.
On the other hand, he was confident in being able to convince the president of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, so that Budapest stops buying Russian oil. “He is my friend. I have not talked to him, but I have the feeling that if I did, I could stop doing it,” he said.
Russian economy is “collapsed”
The Republican tycoon also said that the greatest progress achieved since the last time he saw President Zelenski is that “the Russian economy is in a terrible situation at this time.” “It is collapsing,” Trump said.
The Republican, however, ignored the questions about whether he believes that his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, intends to put an end to the conflict in Ukraine.
“I’ll tell you within a month, okay?”
Trump has given Putin several times to sign the high to the risk of adopting measures against him, as new sanctions.
The US president told his Ukrainian pair on Tuesday that he feels “a great respect for the struggle he is pounding” his country against Russia.
Zelenski thanked Trump for his “personal efforts to stop this war” and echoed the request to European countries to stop buying Russian oil.
