"Mediate your own": Trump snubs Putin's offer on Iran

Trump spoke with reporters on Wednesday outside the White House, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

"I spoke with him yesterday, and I said, you know, he actually offered me to help mediate. I said: do me a favor. Mediate your own. Let's mediate Russia first, okay? I said, Vladimir, let's mediate Russia first".

Trump also reiterated his thesis that Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine would not have started if he were U.S. president at the time.

“This would never have happened if I was president… Putin would never have done it,” he said.

Trump added that he believed that far more people had died in the war than had been reported.

“So many people have been killed. The big thing with that one is far more people are dead than have been reported in Ukraine and Russia, many, many more people,” he said.

Trump also added, apparently referring to the latest shelling of Kyiv: “A building falls down, they (Russian authorities? – ed.) say nobody was hurt, you know. Ridiculous.”

Trump’s last reported conversation with Putin took place on June 14. Trump then pointed out on his social network Truth Social: “He feels, as do I, this war in Israel-Iran should end, to which I explained, his war should also end.”

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