"Donald Trump questioned why people would 'live in Ukraine' as he spoke at a lunch with Trump Kennedy Centre board members on Monday. "I was with, the other night, a person whose parents live in Lebanon. This is a very substantial person, wealthy person, whose parents live in Lebanon. And I said, really? How do you live in Lebanon? ... But they explained to me that it's really a different section of Lebanon... And they get used to it, I guess," he said. "I don't know." "I mean, people live in Ukraine," he went on. "I know you would think they wouldn't live in Ukraine, but they live in Ukraine. I don't know that I'd do that. But they live in Ukraine. They live in Lebanon. Hezbollah is a big problem, and they're rapidly being eliminated." The US and Israel launched strikes on Iran on February 28. Tehran responded with strikes on Israel and US assets in the region. The conflict soon widened to Israel and Hezbollah trading strikes across the border with Lebanon too. "