Ukraine leader says he's ready and able to work with Trump if he wins presidency

Many, mostly on the left, have suggested that if former President Donald Trump is elected next year, support for Ukraine could drastically decrease.

But according to Breitbart, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba doesn't believe that's necessarily the case.

Kuleba, in a recent interview, praised the former president for being one of the first to support Ukraine, and especially for sanctions he placed on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project.

"Who sold the first American weapon to Ukraine? President Trump [sent us] Javelins. Who launched the program of free delivery of the first naval vessels, the Island and Mark VI boats, to Ukraine? Trump. Who fought the Nord Stream 2 project and imposed sanctions on the well-known but already forgotten Fortuna ship that laid this pipeline? It was Trump," the foreign minister said.

Kuleba was careful not to take sides between Trump and President Joe Biden. He simply explained that the two have different leadership styles and you have to know how to work with them.

"That’s why Trump is a person you can work with; you just need to know how to work with him. If he makes it to the election and if he wins, he will be completely different from President Joe Biden, to whom we are extremely grateful for everything," the foreign minister said.

Breitbart confirmed Trump's previous support for Ukraine, which was long before the Russian war against the nation kicked off.

The outlet noted:

As Kuleba pointed out, President Trump approved the sale of Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine in 2017. The Trump State Department cleared a $39 million sale of defensive weapons to Ukraine in 2019, which included about 150 Javelins.

But it didn't end there. In 2019, the Trump administration sent Ukraine Island-class Coast Guard patrolcraft.

A year later, it "approved the sale of 16 Mark VI high-speed patrol boats to Ukraine, six of them funded with American security assistance money."

Just before he left office in early 2021, the Trump administration imposed sanctions on the Russian ship Fortuna and its controlling entities, which is the ship that helped lay the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. The administration announced at the time why it took such actions.

"Nord Stream 2, if completed, would give Russia the means to completely bypass Ukraine, depriving Ukraine of vital revenues and opening it up to further Russian aggressive actions, while providing the means to use natural resources as a tool of political pressure and malign influence against western Europe," Trump's State Department said at the time.

While Trump certainly isn't opposed to assisting Ukraine, the difference between his idea of support and Biden's will be total accountability.

There are widespread reports that much of the financial assistance sent to Ukraine under Biden has been mishandled and essentially pilfered. That certainly won't be the case under Trump.