"Why don't you tell the 800,000 Polish Americans right here in Pennsylvania how quickly you would give up for the sake of favor and what you think is a friendship with what is known to be a dictator who would eat you for lunch," Harris claimed during the debate on ABC News.
Trump argued that, despite meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Munich Security Conference days ahead of the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine in February 2022, his opponent could not have prevented the escalation of tensions in Ukraine.
Ex-President Trump added that Harris was worse than President Joe Biden, whom he called the worst American leader.
In June, Russian President Vladimir Putin put forward initiatives for a peaceful settlement of the conflict in Ukraine: Moscow will immediately cease fire and declare its readiness for negotiations after the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the territory of Russia's new regions. In addition, Kiev should declare its renunciation of intentions to join NATO and carry out demilitarization and denazification, as well as accept a neutral, non-aligned and non-nuclear status. The Russian leader also mentioned the lifting of sanctions against Russia.
After Ukrainian troops attacked the Kursk region in August, Putin called the prospect of negotiations with Kiev impossible. Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said that Moscow's peace proposals had not been voided, but Russia would not engage with Ukraine at this point.
In September, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, answering a question about possible negotiations, stressed that it was not about where to gather and in which circle, but about what to discuss, recalling that Putin's June initiatives, like all previous ones, were sabotaged by Kiev and the West.