US President Donald Trump denounced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as “a dictator without elections” and said he better move fast to secure a peace or he would have no country left.
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Trump spoke hours after Zelensky hit back at his suggestion that Ukraine was responsible for Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion, saying the US president was trapped in a Russian disinformation bubble.
“A Dictator without Elections, Zelensky better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left,” Trump wrote on social media.
Zelensky, who met Trump’s Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg in Kyiv on Wednesday, said he would like Trump’s team to have “more truth” about Ukraine, a day after Trump said Ukraine “should never have started” the conflict with Russia.
The Ukrainian leader said Trump’s assertion that his approval rating was just 4 per cent was Russian disinformation and that any attempt to replace him would fail.
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Ukraine says it won’t accept any US-Russia peace deal reached without Kyiv
Ukraine says it won’t accept any US-Russia peace deal reached without Kyiv
“We have evidence that these figures are being discussed between America and Russia. That is, President Trump … unfortunately lives in this disinformation space,” Zelensky told Ukrainian TV.