Washington – President Trump attacked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as “election without dictator”, echoing the rhetoric of Kremlin on the war in Ukraine and Climbing a public quarrel Between the two leaders.
In a Post on social truth Trump was unleashed in Zelenskyy on Wednesday, accusing him of lasting the United States of providing billions of assistance to Ukraine and using badly.
“Think about it, a moderately successful actor, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said in the United States of America to spend $ 350 billion, to enter a war that could not be won, which never had to start, but A war that he, without the United States and “Trump” can never settle down, “Trump wrote.
Trump inflated the amount of aid that the United States has sent to Ukraine since the Russian invasion in 2022. The United States provided $ 66 billion in security aid. In total, the congress assigned $ 175 billion in economic, humanitarian and military aid to Ukraine.
“He refuses to have elections, is very weak in Ukrainian polls, and the only thing in which it was good was to play Biden” like a violin “, wrote Mr. Trump. “A dictator without elections, Zelenskyy would be better to move quickly or he will not make him a country.”
Zelenskyy was elected president of Ukraine in 2019 with 73% of the vote. The country delayed the elections planned for the beginning of 2024 due to the war with Russia. A recent opinion poll In Ukraine, 57% of Ukrainians said they trusted Zelenskyy, against 37% who said they did not.
A senior administration official told CBS News that Mr. Trump’s attack on Zelenskyy was a direct response to the Ukrainian President saying that Trump seemed to operate in a Russian creation “disinformation space. “”
“We see a lot of disinformation and it comes from Russia,” said Zelenskyy on Wednesday. “Unfortunately, President Trump, with all the respect I owe you … lives in this disinformation space.”
Zelenskyy’s comment one day came after Mr. Trump blamed Ukraine for triggering war with Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a large -scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, falsely advertisement Ukraine was led by “neonazis” who formed a threat to Russia and its neighbors.
US and Russian officials met in Saudi Arabia earlier this week to end the war. Ukrainian officials were not included in the meeting.
In Capitol Hill, several Republican senators disagreed with Mr. Trump’s criticism of Zelenskyy. Senator Lisa Murkowski from Alaska said she would never refer to President Zelenskyy as a dictator “. Senator Susan Collins of Maine said that Zelenskyy was not to blame for the invasion of Russia “in any way”.
“Having assimilated anyone or suggest that anyone in Ukraine is responsible for this war forgets that Putin has lied,” said Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina. “He lied at each stage of the process, and I believe that any resolution in Ukraine which gives him the impression of having won or simply pushed to equality is a bad idea.”
Mike Pence, who was vice-president of Mr. Trump in his first mandate, also spoke out against the president’s comments, sharing an article by Fox News of February 24, 2022, with the title “Russia invades the Ukraine in the largest European attack since the Second World War. ”
“Mr. President, Ukraine did not” start “this war”, pence wrote. “Russia has launched an unlike and brutal invasion by claiming hundreds of thousands of lives. The way of peace must be built on the truth.”
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