The US and Ukraine are irreconciled after Donald Trump escalates his attack on Volodymyr Zelenskyy, calling the Ukrainian president a “dictator” and warns him that he “moves fast” and that the country is not on the left It looked like I was heading towards. .
The US leader's comments on Wednesday, falsely, came after Zelenkie school said Trump was “confined” in the “false information bubble” in Russia.
Trump wrote that “the election-free dictator Zelensky will move fast or he will not leave the country,” which will make his most direct threat to end the war alongside Moscow's goals. With a fierce rant about the true social app that shows.
He added that Zelensky “doesn't do a terrible job,” and benefited from continuing US financial and military support without evidence, and instead of seeking an end to war. He added that he suggested he was interested in extending the program.
The US President wrote that Zelensky, who he fired as a “slack and successful comedian,” said he “told US $350 billion to spend and failed to enter a war that he couldn't win. .
“What he was good at was playing Biden 'like the fiddle',” Trump wrote.
An unprecedented escalation of tensions between Kiev and Washington came after meeting in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to discuss war and economic and political cooperation in Ukraine.
Ukraine and Europe were removed from talks, raising fears that Trump could push for a peace deal in support of Vladimir Putin.
“We are successfully negotiating the end of the war with Russia, and we acknowledge that all this can be done by 'Trump' and the Trump administration,” Trump wrote. At a meeting in Miami on Wednesday, Trump claimed that Zelensky was able to attend Saudi talks, saying he “wanted.” Zelensky denied this, and it was clear in advance that Trump administration officials were bilateral between Russia and the United States. Trump said Wednesday that the talks had gone “very, very well.”
Earlier in the day, Zelenki said at a fighting press conference in Kiev that the US president was pushing forward with “many disinformation from Russia.”
“Unfortunately, President Trump respects him as the leader of the country we so much respect, and we are trapped in this bubble of disinformation,” Zelensky said.
Zelenskyy's comments were in response to a series of inflammatory remarks on Tuesday evening, when Trump first criticised him, suggesting that Ukraine was blamed on Moscow's invasion.
Trump's latest comments will cast serious doubt on future US support for Ukraine. Zelenskyy previously said that Ukraine had little chance of survival without support from its major military partner, the United States.
Zelenskyy said he hopes Trump's team is “more truthful,” but Putin said that the US president “changes his position” by saying “objective information” about the war in Ukraine. He said he began to lead him to this.
Putin also said he “respected” the outcome of the Russian US Summit in Riyadh. “Russia and the US are working together on economic issues, energy markets, space and other areas,” Putin said, adding that he was pleased to meet Trump but “we needed to prepare.”
True socially, Trump doubled his accusations that Ukraine was negligent due to Moscow's invasion. He also claimed that Zelensky “refused to hold the election” and that it was “very low in Ukrainian polls.”
The statement closely coincided with the Kremlin story about Ukraine, urging a rare public challenge by former Trump vice-president Mike Pence, who said in a social media post: The Ukrainian president did not “start” this war. Russia launched an unprovoked brutal invasion that took hundreds of thousands of lives. The path to peace must be built on truth. ”
Calling Zelensky late Wednesday, British Prime Minister Kiel Starmer expressed his support for “Ukraine's democratically elected leader” and said, “The British were “in the process of the United Kingdom during World War II.” As he said, he added that it was completely reasonable to suspend elections during the war,” a Downing Street spokesman said. German Prime Minister Olaf Scholz said it was “falsely dangerous” to deny Zelensky's democratic legitimacy.
Previously, Trump claimed that Zelenskyy had a 4% approval rate and called for a new election. On Wednesday, Zelensky retorted: “We're talking about 4%, so we've seen this disinformation. We understand that it comes from Russia.”
The Ukrainian president has said he never commented on his popular rating, “particularly myself or other leaders,” but the latest poll shows that the majority of Ukrainians trust him. He added that he showed. He added that attempts to replace him during the war would fail.
Zelenskyy's popularity has declined in recent months, but in a February poll by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS), 57% of Ukrainians trusted him, with 52% a month ago increased from.
Mykhailo Fedorov, head of Ukraine's digital affairs ministry, claimed on Wednesday that Zelenskyy's rating is “4-5%” higher than Trump's rating.
Ukrainian law has banned elections under martial law since Russia began its invasion in February 2022. Few Ukrainians support the idea of voting when Russian invasions force them to flee overseas and Ukrainian soldiers are fighting. Die at the forefront.
Ruslan Stefanchuk, chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament, said Ukraine has not “give up” in the election. “Inventing a 'democracy' under artillery fire is not a democracy, but a sight in which the main beneficiaries are in the Kremlin. Ukraine needs bullets, not votes,” he wrote on his Facebook page.
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Zelensky also challenged Trump's comments that the majority of Ukraine's support came from the United States. “The truth is somewhere else,” Zelensky said, adding that he “awesome support,” and “we wanted the Trump team to have real facts.” He later said the US provided $67 billion in arms and $31.5 billion in budgetary assistance.
Zelensky discusses a Trump-led initiative to corner his country's important minerals as a burden for ongoing military and economic aid, and although he cannot “sell Ukraine”, it includes If there was “security guarantee” that said he was ready to work “in serious documents.”
The US had proposed to take 50% of Ukraine's important minerals, but the proposal did not appear to have security guarantees, such as the deployment of Ukraine's US military.
Zelenskyy's team appreciates the need for assurances from the US to stop Russia from launching a new invasion after reaching a peace agreement.
On Wednesday, Trump's Ukrainian envoy Keith Kellogg arrived in Kiev for a meeting with Ukrainian leaders. He is considered Trump's most pro-Ukraine adviser despite his declining influence. “We understand the need for security assurance,” Kellogg told journalists, saying part of his mission is to “sit down and listen.”
Zelenskyy's remarks included the challenge of Kellogg to “talk and talk to ordinary Ukrainians about accepting Trump's comments.”
Late Wednesday, Zelensky said he wanted a “constructive” meeting with Kellogg the next day.
Earlier that day, at the second meeting of European leaders in Paris, arranged by French President Emmanuel Macron, there was a call for immediate action to support Ukraine and strengthen Europe's defensive capabilities. However, there were few specific decisions.
Macron and Stage will visit Washington next week during other conferences aimed at ending Russian wars in Ukraine, according to White House National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.
On Wednesday, the EU agreed to the 16th sanctions package against Russia, which includes aluminum and ships believed to carry approved Russian oil.
Meanwhile, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, who was part of the Saudi Arabian delegation, welcomed Trump for criticizing “poor” Zelensky, and past US support for Ukraine's NATO ambitions led to war. We welcomed the US President's claim that it was an important factor that sparked it.
Russian officials also seized Trump's latest remarks that questioned Zelensky's legitimacy as Ukrainian president. Pyotr Tolstoy, a senior member of the Russian state's Duma, called Trump's comments “important” and suggested he had a great interest in those who call themselves Kiev politicians.”
Reuters contributed to this report
