Why are we doing this? he asks himself in an interview with the magazine Time.
We're just escalating this war and making it worse.
Trump says, however, that he will not abandon Ukraine, and that he will use US support as leverage in negotiations to reach an end to the war.
I want to reach an agreement, he says.
Last month, US President Joe Biden is said to have given Ukraine permission to use American long-range drones against targets deep inside Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has previously threatened to launch a hypersonic missile against central Kyiv if Ukraine does not stop attacking Russian territory with American-made long-range drones of the Atacms type.