Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday clarified remarks about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, telling Fox Nation’s “Piers Morgan Uncensored” that his previous comments have been “mischaracterized.”
“Well, I think it’s been mischaracterized. Obviously, Russia invaded that and that was wrong,” he said. “They invaded Crimea and took that in 2014. That was wrong. What I’m referring to is kinda where the fighting is going on now, which is that western border or eastern border reaching Donbas and then Crimea.”
DeSantis told host Piers Morgan that his comments calling the war a “territorial dispute” were referring to “the conflict area,” instead of saying that he “thought Russia had a right to that.”
He called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” and “basically a gas station with a bunch of nuclear weapons.”
DESANTIS SAYS PUTIN IS ‘A WAR CRIMINAL’ IN PIERS MORGAN INTERVIEW
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting on the social and economic development of Crimea and Sevastopol via a videoconference at the Moscow’s Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on March 17, 2023. (Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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