Putin says the Ukraine war "might not have happened" if Trump was president in 2022, as the two leaders flirt ahead of a mooted meeting
By Ben Aris in Berlin Russian President Vladimir Putin said the 2022 'crisis in Ukraine' might never have happened if Donald Trump had been US president at the time, AFP reported on January 24. 'I cannot but agree with him that if he had been president -- if his victory hadn't been stolen in 2020 -- then maybe there would not have been the crisis