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Donald Trump called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “dictator” and warned that he “moves better quickly or that he will not remain a country”, in a thorough flaw between Washington and kyiv.
THE US President Hit his Ukrainian counterpart in an article on his Truth social platform on Wednesday, a few hours after Zelenskyy accused Trump of living in a “disinformation bubble” and challenged his invoice of $ 500 billion for help in the country torn by War.
The bitter exchange comes after Trump has turned upset decades of American policy by meeting Bilateral talks with Moscow on War of Ukraine Without inviting Kyiv and blame Zelenskyy for the large -scale invasion of Russia in 2022.
By doing his most manifest threat to end the war in favorable terms in Moscow, Trump wrote: “A dictator without elections, Zelenskyy is better to move quickly or he will not make him a country.”
He added Zelenskyy, whom he described as “a slightly successful actor”, “explained in the United States of America to spend 350 billion dollars, to enter a war that could not be won”.
“This war is much more important for Europe than for us – we have a large and beautiful ocean as a separation. . .[Zelenskyy]Refuse to have elections, is very weak in Ukrainian polls, and the only thing it was good was to play [former US President Joe] Biden “like a violin,” wrote Trump.
Speaking in Kyiv earlier Wednesday, Zelenskyy exploded Trump for pushing “a lot of disinformation from Russia”.
“Unfortunately, President Trump, with all the respect for him as a chief of a nation that we respect greatly. . . Lives in this disinformation bubble, “he said.
His comments were provoked by Trump’s false assertion on Tuesday that kyiv started the conflict, the most important on European soil since the Second World War.
“You should never have started,” said Trump, speaking after Washington and Moscow agreed in their bilateral talks to “lay the foundations for future cooperation” at the end of the war. “You could have concluded an agreement.”
Zelenskyy also postponed Trump’s suggestion that the elections should take place in Ukraine after the American president said that his Ukrainian counterpart had had a only 4%approval rating.
Pointing to vote From the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, which, in February, noted that 57% of Ukrainians trusted their president, Zelenskyy said: “So, if someone wants to replace me now, it will not work. “”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has long requested a change of diet in Kyiv.
In a claim not founded in his social post, Trump said: “Zelenskyy admits that half of the money we sent to him is” missing “.”
We didn’t know what Trump was referring to, but the Ukrainian president often said that big pieces of help in the United States have been slow to arrive in the country.
Zelenskyy had disputed the previous statements of Trump earlier according to which Ukraine owed the value of $ 500 billion in rare minerals and other resources for previous military assistance.
“The United States has contributed to around $ 60 billion so far, with an additional $ 31.5 billion in financial aid,” he said. “It’s $ 67 billion in weapons and $ 31.5 billion in direct budget support.”
Kyiv spent $ 320 billion for its war efforts against Russia, with $ 200 billion from international military assistance, Zelenskyy said.
The data from the US State Department largely support the figure of Zelenskyy for American military support in Ukraine.
On Thursday, Zelenskyy is due to hold interviews with Keith Kellogg, Trump’s envoy in Ukraine.
“It is very important to us that meeting and work with America in general are constructive,” said Ukrainian president on Wednesday evening.
Putin said earlier on Wednesday that he “greatly appreciates” American-Russian discussions in Saudi Arabia, which, according to him, “made the first step to use our work on all kinds of mattial interest”.
“American negotiators were completely different-they were open to a negotiation process without prejudice or judgments on what has been done in the past,” he added, in his first public comments since a telephone call with Trump who led to the Riyadh meeting. “They intend to work together.”
Putin said Russia would not “speculate” on American-European relations, but said that EU leaders “insulted” Trump during his electoral campaign and said “that they are themselves at fault for what is happening “.
The Russian president said that he would meet Trump “with pleasure” but that any summit required substantial preparation.
