Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky | Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Ukraine “will lose” its war against Russia if the United States cuts military funding to Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelensky told Fox News on Tuesday.
“If they cut, we will — I think we will lose,” Zelensky said in an interview with the US television network.
“We will fight. We have our production, but it’s not enough to prevail. And I think it’s not enough to survive,” he continued.
US President-elect Donald Trump is a vocal skeptic of the billions that the administration of President Joe Biden has given to Ukraine since the Russian invasion began in 2022.
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Trump has repeatedly promised to end the war quickly, but has not provided details of how he would do so.
This week his allies voiced vehement criticism of Biden’s decision to let Ukraine use US-supplied long-range missiles for attacks inside Russia, accusing him of a dangerous escalation.
Zelensky told Fox that “unity” between Ukraine and the United States was “most important.”
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Trump, he said, could influence Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war, “because he is much more stronger than Putin.”
Putin “can be willing and end this war, but it also depends on the United States of America much more. Putin is weaker than the United States of America,” he said.
With Russia gaining ground and increasing talk of negotiations, Ukraine is wary of being at a disadvantage when it comes to hashing out a peace settlement.