Russian President Vladimir Putin is not cooperating with President Trump and “wants to delay tactics and use this to achieve his political goals,” said former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore, who served as the U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe during the first Trump administration.
“And you can tell that by the way he’s conducting the negotiations, by the way he’s conducting these attacks on energy infrastructure, after there was a purported effort to try to create a cease fire in that regard,” Gilmore said Friday on Newsmax’s “Newsline.”
“Putin has been talking about a United Nations government over Ukraine. Well, that’s an effort to delegitimate Ukraine as a country, which has been one of Putin’s main goals. Frankly, I think we ought to be having a U.N. government over Russia.”
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