US President Donald Trump has blamed former President Joe Biden’s rhetoric toward Russia for contributing to the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war, claiming the conflict would not have started if he had been president.

Axar.az reports that Trump made the remarks in an interview with Gray Media.

“You know, part of the reason you have that war in the first place is Biden went around mocking Russia and mocking everybody else and didn’t know what he was doing. That was a war that should have never started.

If I were president, if that election wasn’t rigged and it was rigged, you wouldn’t have had a war with Ukraine and with Russia,” he said.