Only I can fix it · Second term · № 56
Zelensky has 'only got one thing ... Donald Trump'
“He's only got one thing...Donald Trump. If he doesn't have Donald Trump, that thing would have been a total disaster.”
- Said
- , Interview with The New York Times, Oval Office
- Subject
- Ukraine's survival
- Topic
- Ukraine & Russia
- Era
- Second term
What happened
As of September 2026 the war was in its fifth year, with Russia holding much of eastern Ukraine and escalating strikes in recent months. U.S.-led talks scheduled for the UAE were postponed in early 2026 during the Iran war; after a six-month hiatus, envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met Putin in Moscow on September 5, 2026 and Zelenskyy in Kyiv on September 6, securing only a three-day mutual strike moratorium, with territory the main sticking point and the Kremlin rejecting a Putin-Zelenskyy meeting.