China will be “the main beneficiary” of US President Donald Trump’s foreign policies, including his decision to align with Russia over Ukraine, Kyiv’s former foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba has said.
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Speaking days after a blistering on-camera argument between Trump and Ukrainian Presidency Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office, Kuleba said “everyone saw that the United States do not consider themselves as an ally of Ukraine and Europe any more”.
“I’m not surprised by the fact, but I’m surprised by how quickly this fact was exposed and literally formalised,” said Kuleba, who served as foreign minister for more than four years, including the first 2½ years of the war with Russia.
On Friday, in a fiery encounter in the White House, Trump told Zelensky he should be more “thankful” for US support and said he was “gambling with World War III” by rejecting Washington’s plans for a ceasefire. The Ukrainian president was subsequently asked to leave, without signing a deal on critical minerals, and without US support for his country.
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The full heated argument between Zelensky, Trump and Vance
The full heated argument between Zelensky, Trump and Vance
Kuleba described the incident as “an attack not only on President Zelensky himself, but on the country that he represents”, adding that “many other leaders from around the world, most notably from Europe, [could] easily imagine themselves in Zelensky’s shoes”.
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