By Molly Claire Goddard
9:45am PDT, Jun 9, 2025
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Volodymyr Zelensky is refuting
Donald Trump's analogy about the war between Ukraine and Russia.
After the leader of the United States compared the Ukrainian president and
Vladimir Putin's dynamic to "children fighting on a playground," Zelensky highlighted the immense devastation the conflict is causing civilians.
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In a clip from an upcoming interview with
George Stephanopoulos released on Friday, June 6, Volodymyr Zelensky criticized Donald Trump's remarks about his deeply rooted differences with Vladimir Putin.
"We are not kids with Putin at the playground in the park," the
Ukranian leader said. "He is a murderer who came to this park to kill the kids."
"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," he added. ""[They] cannot feel fully and understand this pain."
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While hosting German Chancellor
Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office on Thursday, June 5, Donald Trump made the strange
analogy about the war between Russia and Ukraine and Volodymyr Zelensky's friction with Vladimir Putin.
"Sometimes you see two young children fighting like crazy. 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," the politician said during a press gathering. "Sometimes you're better off letting them fight for a while and then pulling them apart. And I gave that analogy to Putin yesterday. I said, 'President, maybe you have to keep fighting and suffering a lot' because both sides are suffering, before you pull them apart before they're able to be pulled apart."
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Donald Trump also alleged that when he was on a call with Vladimir Putin, he told him he was planning to retaliate against Ukraine after the bombing of the Kerch Strait bridge to Crimea.
"He actually told me him and made it very clear, he said, 'We have no choice but to
attack based on that, and it's probably not going to be pretty,'" the businessman noted. "I don't like it. I said, 'Don't do it. You shouldn't do it. You should stop it.' But again, there's a lot of hatred."
