Donald Trump described Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a “dictator” and warned that he “moves better quickly or that he has no country”, in an in -depth crack between Washington and Kyiv.
The US President On Wednesday, hours after Zelenskyy Trump accused Trump in a “disinformation bubble”, in a position on his social platform of truth in a “disinformation bubble” and contested his 500 billion dollar bill for the country torn by the war.
The bitter exchange takes place after Trump has increased the decades of US politics by convening Bilateral conversations with Moscow on the Ukraine war Without inviting Kyiv and accusing Zelenskyy for the full invasion of Russia in 2022.
Trump made his open threat to end the war to end the war: “A dictator without elections, Zelenskyy is better moving quickly or he will no longer have a country.”
He added that Zelenskyy, whom he described as a “modest successful comedian”, “had spoken to the United States of issuing $ 350 billion and going into a war that could not be won”.
“This war is far more important for Europe than for us – we have a large, beautiful ocean as a separation. . . (Zelenskyy) refuses to have elections is very low in the Ukrainian surveys, and the only one in which he was good was playing (former US President Joe) Biden ‘Like a Gydle’, wrote Trump.
Speak in Kyiv on Wednesday, Zelenskyy Trump blew because he had pushed “a lot of disinformation from Russia”.
“Unfortunately, President Trump, with all respect for him as a leader of a nation that we respect very much. . . Lives in this disinformation bubble, ”he said.
His comments were triggered by Trump’s false claim on Tuesday that Kyiv had started the conflict, the largest on European soil since World War II.
“You should never have started with it,” said Trump and spoke and spoke to Washington and Moscow in their bilateral conversations, “the foundations for future cooperation” for the end of the Ukraine decline. “You could have done a deal.”
Zelenskyy also resisted Trump’s proposal that elections in Ukraine should be held after the US President claimed that his Ukrainian counterpart had an approval rate of only 4 percent.
Show Surveys From the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, which 57 percent of Ukrainians trusted its president in February, Zelenskyy said: “So if someone wants to replace me now, it won’t work.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has long been looking for a change of regime in Kyiv.
Trump’s comments on Zelenskyy prompted German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who said that it was “just wrong and dangerous to refuse President Zelenskyy his democratic legitimacy”.
UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starrer Expression support For Zelenskyy after a call between the two men, the Ukrainian president said a “democratically elected leader” and it was “completely reasonable” to hire the elections during the war.
In an unfounded claim in his social post of truth, Trump said: “Zelenskyy admits that half the money we sent him” missed “.”
It was unclear what Trump referred to, but the Ukrainian president has often said that large pieces of promised US help arrive slowly in the country.
Zelenskyy denied Trump’s earlier claims that Ukraine owed $ 500 billion for rare minerals and other resources for military support in the past.
“So far, the United States has contributed around 60 billion USD with additional financial support of USD 31.5 billion,” he said. “That is $ 67 billion in weapons and $ 31.5 billion for direct budget support.”
Kyiv spent $ 320 billion for his war effort against Russia, with 200 billion US dollars from international military support, said Zelenskyy.
Data from the US State Department supports the figure of Zelenskyy for American military support for Ukraine on the whole.
Zelenskyy will have talks with Keith Kellogg, Trump’s envoy in Ukraine on Thursday.
“It is very important for us that the meeting and working with America are generally constructive,” said the Ukrainian president on Wednesday evening.
Putin used to say on Wednesday that he “appreciates” the US Russia talks in Saudi Arabia, and said that he had “taken the first step back in order to resume our work on all possible questions of each other”.
“The US negotiators were completely different -they were open to a negotiating process without prejudice or judgments about what was done in the past,” he added in his first public comments since a call with Trump, who led to the Riyadh meeting. “They intend to work together.”
Putin said that Russia would not “speculate” about US European relationships, but claimed that the EU leaders Trump had “insulted” during his election campaign and said: “You are to blame for what is happening.”
The Russian president said he would meet Trump “with pleasure” with pleasure, but every summit requires considerable preparation.
Additional reporting by Lucy Fisher and George Parker in London
