Trump lies over Zelensky and Ukraine: Fact Check
Trump lies over Zelensky and Ukraine: Fact Check
Washington - former President Donald Trump spreads numerous false information about the situation in Ukraine. In his statements on Tuesday and one Post on Wednesday Trump made several wrong claims about the Ukrainian president WolodyM Selenskyj and the Russian War against Ukraine, of which some incorrect argument von wladimir Putin, the Russian president. This is followed by a review of the statements he made.
Who started the war?
In his statements on Tuesday, Trump rejected the complaints of Ukraine about her exclusion from the US Russian talks to terminate the war and wrongly claimed: "You should never have started the war. You could have done a deal."
Ukraine did not start the war. Russia started the war by 2022 . Even Trump's former Vice President Mike Pence as well as numerous Republican have highlighted this obvious fact according to Trump's false statement.
Selenskyj's approval rate
In the same statements, Trump called up for a new election in Ukraine-the presidential election planned for last year was due to the right to war - and wrongly claimed that Selenskyj had a "approval rate of only 4%". This number is wide from the truth" removed .
US aid for Ukraine in the event of a war
In his contribution on social media on Wednesday, Trump mistakenly claimed that Selenskyj had "made the United States output $ 350 billion" in order to "enter a" uncomfortable war ". This number is also far from reality.
according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a German Think Tank, the The war support for Ukraine The United States has been followed exactly between the end of January 2022, shortly before the Russian invasion, and at the end of December 2024 a total of around $ 124 billion in military, financial and humanitarian aid for Ukraine. In fact, around $ 119 billion were planned.
US help compared to European help
In his statements on Tuesday and the contribution on social media on Wednesday, Trump again took up his usual but false claim about an alleged massive disparity between the help for Ukraine by the USA and Europe. On Tuesday, he said: "I think Europe gave 100 billion and we say, we say more than 300 billion." On Wednesday he wrote: "The United States spent $ 200 billion more than Europe." None of these statements is correct.
In fact, according to the data of the Kiel Institute, the European Union and individual European countries - by the end of December,has made a much more military, financial and humanitarian aid to Ukraine (about $ 258 billion) than the USA (about $ 124 billion). Military, financial and humanitarian aid was also around $ 138 billion from Europe compared to $ 119 billion from the USA.
Selenskyj and "missing" aid money
In his contribution on social media on Wednesday, Trump misguided that Selenskyj had "admitted that half the money we sent him was 'missing'." He also made this claim to reporters on Tuesday.
Selenskyj, however, did not make such a statement. Rather, he has complained about exaggerated claims on how much US money the Ukraine has received. In an interview with the Associated press on 1. Billions of dollars of US aids speak, but Ukraine actually received around $ 76 billion, primarily in the form of weapons. He does not know where the entire additional money has remained and notes that the higher amounts may be "on paper", according to a Translation by the news portal Ukrainska Pravda .
In contrast to some viral Social media contributions this month this was not an admission that half of the US aids had disappeared to Ukraine. In reality, Selenskyj said exactly what experts in the USA and elsewhere again and again have: A large part of the overall budget of the US response in Ukraine does not flow as money to the Ukrainian government.
How experts from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) In the last May> wrote : "The idea of 'help for Ukraine' is misleading. Despite the pictures of 'pallets with cash' that are sent to Ukraine, about 72 percent of this money is spent and 86 percent of military aid in the United States. The reason for this high percentage is that the weapons that go to Ukraine, in US factories Part of the humanitarian aid in the United States.
In new comments on reporters on Wednesday Reuters that Selenskyj said that the United States provided around $ 67 billion in weapons and $ 31.5 billion in household support.
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