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Donald Trump calls Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “dictator” and warned that he “acts better or he won’t leave a country.” The rift between Washington and Kiev deepened.
The U.S. president defeated him in his Ukrainian counterpart on Wednesday in an article on his truth social platform, hours after Zelensky accused Trump of living in a “false information bubble” and The $50 billion bill offered help to the war-torn-in-law nation.
Bilateral negotiations were convened in the Ukrainian war without inviting Kiev and accusing Zelensky of participating in the 2022 Russian invasion, this painful exchange was conducted through Moscow with the slightest exchange. Bilateral negotiations.
Trump wrote in the most obvious threat of ending the war in favorable conditions of Moscow: “A dictator without elections, Zelenskyy will act better quickly or he will not leave a country.”
He added that he called Zelenskyy “a humble and successful comedian” who “talked with the United States of America to spend $350 billion to win a war that could not be won.”
“This war is much more important to Europe than to us – we have a big and beautiful ocean as separation…[Zelenskyy]Rejection of elections, very low in Ukrainian polls, the only thing he is good at [former US President Joe] Biden is “like a violin,” Trump wrote.
Zelenskyy blows up Trump when he speaks in Kyiv, “pushing a lot of false information from Russia.”
“Unfortunately, President Trump has deserved the respect he deserves in the leaders of a country we respect very much… He lives in this kind of false information,” he said.
Trump’s false claims on Tuesday sparked his comments that the conflict began in Kiev, the biggest conflict on European land since World War II.
“You should never start,” Trump said after Trump agreed to “lay the foundation for future cooperation” in bilateral negotiations between Washington and Moscow. “You could have reached an agreement.”
Zelenskyy also opposed Trump’s suggestion that elections were held in Ukraine after the U.S. president claimed that his Ukrainian counterpart had a approval rate of only 4%.
Pointing to the vote of the Kiev Institute of International Sociology, which found in February that 57% of Ukrainians trust their President Zelensky said: “So if someone wants to replace me right away, that’s OK. Not working.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has long been seeking regime change in Kiev.
Zelenskyy also disputed Trump’s claim that Ukraine owes $50 billion worth of rare minerals and other resources to obtain past military aid.
Zelenskyy said Kiev spent $320 billion on war efforts against Russia, of which $20 billion came from international military aid.
“So far, the United States has contributed about $60 billion and provided $31.5 billion in financial aid,” he said. “This is $67 billion in weapons and $31.5 billion in direct budget support.”
The U.S. State Department data broadly support Zelenskyy’s figures for military support to Ukraine.
Putin said on Wednesday that he was “very grateful” for the U.S.-Russian talks in Saudi Arabia, saying “the first step is to restore our work on various reciprocity issues.”
“The American negotiators are completely different – they open up the negotiation process without any bias or judgment,” he added in his first public comment since the call with Trump. “They intend to work together.”
Putin said Russia would not “speculation” on U.S.-European relations, but claimed EU leaders “insulted” Trump during election campaigns and said “they themselves are wrong about what is going on.”
Putin said he will be “happy” to meet Trump, but any summit will require a lot of preparation.
