Russian President #VladimirPutin said Friday that the 2022 "crisis in #Ukraine" -- a reference to Moscow's full-scale military offensive -- might have been averted had #DonaldTrump been US president at the time.

"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 in Ukraine that emerged in 2022," Putin told a state TV reporter.