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NATO Leader Pledges Support to Kyiv as Trump Blames Ukraine, Not Russia, for Invasion

HeadlineApr 16, 2025

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte pledged “unwavering” support for Ukraine Tuesday as he visited the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa for talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky. Their meeting came a day after President Trump once again blamed Ukraine — not Russia — for starting the war.

President Donald Trump: “When you start a war, you got to know that you can win the war, right? You don’t start a war against somebody that’s 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles.”

Trump made those remarks after downplaying a Russian attack on the city of Sumy on Sunday that killed 35 people and injured more than 100 others, in one of the deadliest attacks on civilians since Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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