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Donald Trump stated on February 18, 2025 in remarks to reporters at Mar-a-Lago:
Volodymyr Zelenskyy “started” the war in Ukraine with Russia.
By Claire Cranford, Louis Jacobson• February 19, 2025
Donald Trump stated on July 28, 2025 in an interview:
“I’ve stopped six wars” since taking office in January 2025.
By Samantha Putterman• August 5, 2025
Facebook posts stated on March 02, 2022 in a public Facebook post:
“Putin Vows to ‘Crush’ Child Traffickers in Ukraine”
By Luiz Romero• March 18, 2022
JD Vance stated on February 12, 2024 in a memo shared with GOP colleagues:
“The Ukraine supplemental includes a hidden impeachment clause against President Trump.”
By Madison Czopek• February 16, 2024
Russian Embassy in Canada stated on March 01, 2022 in a statement:
"The Russian army does not occupy Ukrainian territory."
By Louis Jacobson• March 3, 2022
Val Demings stated on January 29, 2020 in the impeachment trial:
“All of the aid has not arrived” to Ukraine.
By Amy Sherman• February 3, 2020
Instagram posts stated on October 09, 2023 in an Instagram post:
Less than 48 hours after Israel was attacked “we have hundreds of hours worth of footage but zero footage from the Ukraine war.”
By Sara Swann• October 13, 2023
Facebook posts stated on February 24, 2022 in social media posts:
A photo of a wounded young child was captured in Ukraine in 2022.
By Bill McCarthy• March 1, 2022
William Taylor stated on November 13, 2019 in impeachment inquiry testimony:
"The Russians are violating all of the rules, treaties, understandings that they committed to that actually kept the peace in Europe for nearly 70 years."
By Tom Kertscher• November 14, 2019
Rand Paul stated on November 10, 2019 in an interview on Meet the Press:
President Donald Trump's phone call with the Ukrainian president "sounds exactly like what Joe Biden did."
By Amy Sherman• November 11, 2019
Facebook posts stated on February 27, 2022 in a video:
Image shows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “has joined the front lines with his troops.”
By Monique Curet• March 4, 2022
Vladimir Putin stated on February 24, 2022 in an address to the nation announcing the attack on Ukraine:
Ethnic Russians face “genocide perpetrated by the Kyiv regime.”
By Jon Greenberg• February 25, 2022
Tom Cotton stated on June 16, 2024 in an interview on CNN's State of the Union:
“The weapons that Ukraine used in the early days of this war to fend off the Russian invasion are the weapons that Donald Trump sent, that Barack Obama and Joe Biden had refused to send.”
By Amy Sherman• July 2, 2024
Donald Trump stated on August 18, 2025 in a Truth Social post:
“We are now the only country in the world that uses mail-in voting.”
By Amy Sherman• August 18, 2025
Donald Trump stated on July 25, 2019 in a phone call:
"A lot of people are talking about" the removal of a "very fair prosecutor" in Ukraine.
By John Kruzel• September 26, 2019
JD Vance stated on February 19, 2022 in an interview with Steve Bannon:
Says Joe Biden risks war with Russia because Vladimir Putin doesn’t “believe in transgender rights."
By Jon Greenberg• February 21, 2022
Facebook posts stated on February 25, 2022 in a Facebook post:
The war in Ukraine is “scripted and staged.”
By Gabrielle Settles• March 4, 2022
Donald Trump stated on October 09, 2019 in an ad:
"Fact: Joe Biden pressured Ukraine to fire its prosecutor .... Fact: the prosecutor said he was forced out for leading a corruption probe into Hunter Biden's company. Fact: Democrats want to impeach President Trump for discussing this investigation with Ukraine's President."  
By Amy Sherman• October 11, 2019
Instagram posts stated on February 27, 2022 in an Instagram post:
Photo of injured Ukrainian woman was from 2018 Russia gas explosion.
By Jeff Cercone• April 7, 2022
Donald Trump stated on March 29, 2022 in an interview with Just the News:
“You go to a store, they don’t have bread.”
By Jon Greenberg• March 30, 2022

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