Kyiv, Ukraine-Relations between the President of the Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Donald Trump quickly deteriorated on Wednesday, when Zelensky said that Trump lived in the Russian “disinformation space” and Trump Trump called Zelensky “Dictator without elections” in comments that certainly complicated efforts end.
Zelensky also said that he would like Trump’s team “more truthful” because he would offer his first answer to a series of striking claims that Trump made the day before, including falsely suggesting that they suggest this Kiev was guilty for the warwhich starts the fourth year next week.
The comments were a festing forward between the leaders of the two countries who in recent years were die -hard allies under Trump’s rule. While former president Joe Biden was in the White House, the US provided Kiva with key military equipment to repel the invasion and used their political weight to defend Ukraine and Russia’s isolation on the world stage.
The Trump administration began to create a recent course, reaching Russia and pressing the peace agreement. Seer officials from both countries conducted talks on Tuesday to discuss improving the bond, negotiating the end of the war and potentially preparing the meeting of Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin after years of frosty relations.
Trump hits social media
Trump attacked Zelensky in a post in social media, which apparently referred to the fact that Ukraine delayed the election due to the invasion and subsequent imposition of martial law in accordance with the Ukrainian constitution. Trump suggested that Ukraine should take an election.
Trump also called Zelensky “modestly succeeding in a comedian”, which “talked about the United States of America to spend $ 350 billion in order to go to a war that you can not win, which never had to start, but the war, which he, without the Without The without The without The My and “Trump” they will never be able to settle. “
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The president continued that the only thing Zelensky “was good was playing” like a violin “. He advised Zelensky to “move quickly or would not have a country.”
Later, he repeated many critics of Zelensky, who, as he said, did a “terrible job” during a speech before a meeting at the business directors led by a sovereign Saudi Arabian wealth fund.
Meanwhile, Putin said he would like to meet Trump.
Russia crossed the border on February 24, 2022 in all the invasion Putin tried to justify A false claim that civilian protection in eastern Ukraine is needed. He also accused the US and their allies of ignoring the Russian request to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO and offering Moscow security guarantees. Ukraine and its allies condemned the attack as an unpredictable act of aggression.
“I would like to have a meeting, but they should be prepared to bring results,” said Putin on Wednesday on television remarks. He added that he would be “satisfied” that he met with Trump, but he noticed that Trump admitted that the Ukrainian settlement may last longer than he initially expected.
Putin says he wants to rebuild US-Russia relations
The Russian leader welcomed Tuesday’s conversations between older Russian and American officials in the Saudi capital of Riyadh as “very positive.” He said that officials who took part in the talks described the US delegation as “completely different people who were open to the negotiating process without any prejudice, without any condemnation of what was done in the past” and decided to cooperate with Moscow.
Putin said the “goal and theme” of Tuesday conversations “was to restore Russia’s relations.”
“Without increasing the level of trust between Russia and the United States, it is impossible to solve many problems, including the Ukrainian crisis. The purpose of this meeting was to precisely raise trust between Russia and the United States – said Putin.
He rejected Zelensky’s complaints about the exclusion of Ukraine with American conversations among the greater worries that shaping the contract may be unfavorable to Kiev. Putin said Kiev’s reaction was “unfounded.”
“President Trump told me during our telephone conversation that the United States assumes that the negotiations process would cover Russia and Ukraine,” said Putin. “Nobody excludes this Ukraine.”
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The German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that “bad and dangerous” is to refuse the democratic Isskysky ID. Germany was the second withdrawal of the supplier of a weapon in the United States
“No orderly elections can take place during the war, corresponds to the decision of the Ukrainian constitution and electoral provisions. Nobody should say anything else, “Scholz said News der Spiegel.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke on Wednesday with Zelensky and “emphasized the need for cooperation of everyone”, according to Starmer’s office, which added that “completely reasonable” is the suspension of elections during the war, like the United Kingdom during World War II.
The Ukrainian president meets a special USA
Zelensky’s comments on Wednesday came shortly before the meeting Keith Kellogg, A special American envoy of Ukraine and Russia as part of the recent diplomatic Blitz Administration.
At a press conference on Tuesday, Trump showed little patience with Ukraine’s reservations about exclusion from conversations between the best American and Russian diplomats In Saudi Arabia. He also said, without giving the source, that the assessment of Zelensky’s approval was 4%, and reported journalists that Ukraine “should never have started” war and “could conclude a contract” to prevent it.
Zelensky answered on Wednesday at his own press conference: “We saw this disinformation. We understand that it comes from Russia. “He said that Trump” lives in this disinformation space. “
Zelensky said he hopes Kellogg would go through Kiev and ask the Ukrainians, “Do they trust his president? Do they trust Putin? Let him ask about Trump what they think after the statements made by their president. “
The Ukrainian leader also referred to “history” that 90% of all lend a hand received by Ukraine comes from the United States. For example, he said that about 34% of all weapons in Ukraine are produced in the country, and over 30% of support comes from Europe.
In other events, the survey published on Wednesday by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology Trust in Zelensky at 57%. The study was conducted from February 4 to February 9, among 1000 people living in Ukraine in regions and territories controlled by the Ukrainian government.
The institute’s executive director, Anton Hreskssskyi, described the result as “very good” for a democratic society. In addition to public trust, Zelensky said “retains his legitimacy.”
Trump’s treatment of Zelensky makes the Russian media cheerful
Russian state television and other media controlled by the state reacted with joy to what they presented as the frigid shoulder of Trump on Zelensky.
“Trump does not even try to hide his irritation with Zelensky,” said Rossiya Channel at the top of the news.
“Trump Steamrollad Zelensky for complaints about conversations with Russia,” said Daily Komsomolskaya Pravda.
There is a larger army on the battlefield on the battlefield Grinding Ukrainian forceswhich are slowly but constantly pushed at some points of the front line 1000 kilometers (600 miles).
American officials have signaled that the hopes of Ukraine to join NATO after reaching a possible peace agreement will not take place. Zelensky claims that every settlement will require US security obligations to stop Russia.
