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According to a report on the RT website on the 26th, the Republican presidential candidate and former President Trump praised the combat capabilities of the Russian army and vowed that if he wins this year's US presidential election, he will end the Russia-Ukraine conflict by the end of this year.

Former US President Trump Source: Visual China

In a more than one-hour interview video released on August 26, Trump talked about the Russian-Ukrainian conflict when he was a guest on the show of Shawn Ryan, a former US Navy SEAL and former CIA contractor. Trump said: "In the winter, Russia fights very well. They defeated (Nazi) Germany and defeated Napoleon. They are difficult to defeat easily. They have a strong military force, and Ukraine does not... But Ukraine has us, and we pay a lot of money for them."

RT reported that according to statistics from the Kiel Institute, a German think tank that tracks aid to Ukraine, since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in 2022, the United States and other countries have provided Kiev with a total of more than $400 billion in aid, including more than $120 billion in military aid.

In the interview, Trump opposed the United States taking on most of the military aid, arguing that NATO members in Europe need to "balance" their contributions. The report said Trump did not elaborate on this.

In addition, Trump said in the interview that "this war is much more destructive than people think." He also promised that if he is elected president, he will "solve" the problem and will not wait until the inauguration ceremony in January next year. RT reported that Trump has repeatedly claimed that if he is still the president of the United States, the Russia-Ukraine conflict will not break out. He also said that he will stop the conflict within 24 hours.

In the interview, when Trump was asked how he would choose to spend the $175 billion that Congress had appropriated for aid to Ukraine, he pointed out that the federal government debt has exceeded $35 trillion. The former US president also lamented that the Pentagon had exhausted the weapons stockpile that he had replenished during his tenure. "These people gave all the ammunition to Ukraine," Trump said, "and now we are out of ammunition."