{"id":7344,"date":"2025-08-16T17:52:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T17:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=7344"},"modified":"2025-08-16T17:52:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T17:52:34","slug":"fact-check-trumps-latest-fake-history-about-the-war-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=7344","title":{"rendered":"Fact check: Trump\u2019s latest fake history about the war in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"99\" data-end=\"172\"><strong data-start=\"99\" data-end=\"172\">Trump\u2019s False Claims on Russia-Ukraine War and Alaska Summit Outcomes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"174\" data-end=\"530\">Donald Trump has repeatedly made inaccurate claims about Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, including that Russian tanks failed to reach Kyiv in 2022 because they avoided highways and got stuck in mud. Experts and military analysts say Russia actually did use highways and was stopped by fierce Ukrainian resistance and logistical issues, not a tactical choice.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"532\" data-end=\"563\">Trump has also falsely claimed:<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"564\" data-end=\"929\">\n<li data-start=\"564\" data-end=\"699\">\n<p data-start=\"566\" data-end=\"699\">The U.S. gave Ukraine $350B in aid while Europe gave $100B. In fact, Europe has contributed more\u2014around $195B vs. $134B from the U.S.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"700\" data-end=\"761\">\n<p data-start=\"702\" data-end=\"761\">Zelensky admitted half of U.S. aid went missing. He didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"762\" data-end=\"800\">\n<p data-start=\"764\" data-end=\"800\">Ukraine started the war. Russia did.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"801\" data-end=\"856\">\n<p data-start=\"803\" data-end=\"856\">Zelensky\u2019s approval rating is 4%. It\u2019s closer to 60%.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"857\" data-end=\"929\">\n<p data-start=\"859\" data-end=\"929\">88% of Ukrainians support a negotiated peace. Polls show about 69% do.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-start=\"931\" data-end=\"1080\">Despite pledging to end the war on \u201cday one,\u201d Trump later said he was joking. He has made that promise seriously over 50 times on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1082\" data-end=\"1358\">At a recent summit in Alaska with Vladimir Putin, Trump failed to broker a deal to end the war. Though both leaders claimed &#8220;progress,&#8221; no ceasefire was reached. Putin repeated demands that Ukraine cede territory and halt its NATO ambitions\u2014conditions Zelensky firmly rejects.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1360\" data-end=\"1674\">Trump praised his relationship with Putin and plans to involve himself in future talks, including a proposed trilateral meeting with Zelensky. While no major outcome emerged from the summit, Putin&#8217;s re-entry into U.S. diplomacy was symbolically significant, especially given his international isolation since 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s False Claims on Russia-Ukraine War and Alaska Summit Outcomes Donald Trump has repeatedly made inaccurate claims about Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, including that Russian tanks failed to reach Kyiv in 2022 because they avoided highways and got stuck in mud. Experts and military analysts say Russia actually did use highways and was stopped by&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=7344\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Fact check: Trump\u2019s latest fake history about the war in Ukraine&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7346,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7344\/revisions\/7346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}