In the days after President Donald Trump falsely said that Ukraine started its war with Russia, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said the president’s comments were “just wrong.”
U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan on Thursday reasserted that Russian President Vladimir Putin “started this war by invading Ukraine,” though Sullivan did not directly criticize Trump’s recent statements.
Murkowski’s was some of the harshest criticism from congressional Republicans directed at Trump after he repeatedly suggested that Ukraine was to blame for the war.
“I think we were all more than a little bit stunned,” Murkowski said on a telephonic town hall with more than 1,000 Alaskans on Wednesday evening, describing what she called the “radical switch” in Trump’s stance toward Ukraine.
Trump said Tuesday that Ukraine’s leaders “should have never started it,” referring to a war against Russia that began on Feb. 24, 2022, when Russia’s army crossed the border in an all-out invasion of Ukraine.
Murkowski said Trump’s “very derisive” comments about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy were “uncalled for and unfortunate.” In social media posts on Wednesday, Trump referred to Zelenskyy as a “dictator” and a “modestly successful comedian” who had talked the U.S. into sending Ukraine military aid for a war “that never had to start.”
“It is just wrong to suggest that somehow or another Ukraine started this war, asked for this war. It is clear for all the world to see and to know that Putin invaded Ukraine and...
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