{"id":10066,"date":"2025-06-09T00:23:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T00:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/zelensky-says-he-understands-putin-much-better-than-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T00:23:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T00:23:23","slug":"zelensky-says-he-understands-putin-much-better-than-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/zelensky-says-he-understands-putin-much-better-than-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky says he understands Putin &#8216;much better&#8217; than Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian officials understand Russian leader Vladimir Putin &ldquo;much better&rdquo; than President Trump, who has repeatedly said Putin wants peace, even as he rejects U.S. proposals for a ceasefire.  &ldquo;With all due respect to President Trump, I think it&#8217;s just his personal opinion,&rdquo; Zelensky told Martha Raddatz on ABC&rsquo;s &ldquo;This Week&rdquo;&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5339356-zelensky-disagrees-with-trump-on-putin\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian officials understand Russian leader Vladimir Putin &ldquo;much better&rdquo; than President Trump, who has repeatedly said Putin wants peace, even as he rejects U.S. proposals for a ceasefire. &ldquo;With all due respect to President Trump, I think it&#8217;s just his personal opinion,&rdquo; Zelensky told Martha Raddatz on ABC&rsquo;s &ldquo;This Week&rdquo;&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}