Donald Trump has issued a brutal removal of VolodyMyr Zensky and called the Ukrainian leader 'a modest successful comedian' and 'a dictator without elections' in response to accusations that the US president had fallen for Russian fake news.
'Remember, a modest successful comedian, Volodymyr Zenskyy, the United States of America spoke to spend $ 350 billion dollars, to go into a war that could not be won, who never had to start, but a war he , Without the US and 'Trump' will never be able to settle, “Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.
“I love Ukraine, but Zenskyy has done it terribly, his country is crushed and millions have died unnecessarily – and so it goes on …” he posted.
In what seemed to be a thin-hededy threat, Trump further said that “Zensky can move better quickly or that he will not have a country left.”
Vladimir Putin said earlier that he would meet Trump and praised him for 'changing his position' when he started 'objective information' – hours after Volodyymyr Zensky accused the US president of traps for Russian disinformation.
The Russian dictator welcomed the conversations of Tuesday between Russian and American officials in Saudi Arabia and described them as a 'first step' to restore relations with Washington.
“I was informed (during the conversations). I rate them high, there is a result, “said Putin in a drone factory in Saint Petersburg, and added:” In my opinion we took the first step to restore the work in different areas of mutual interests. “
He said that securing a resolution to the conflict is a priority for Russia, but added that his country should build trust in the United States to achieve this.
“It is impossible to solve many problems, including the Ukrainian crisis, without increasing the level of trust between Russia and the United States,” Putin said in the television meeting.
Although Trump previously suggested that a face-to-face encounter between Putin and himself could be held before the end of the month, the Russian president said he was not ready to say when conversations could take place.
President Zelensky spoke with reporters in Kiev in Kiev earlier today, criticized Washington's thawing by relations with Moscow and pushed back on a number of unfounded claims from the US president at a press conference last night.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (C) spoke with reporters while today visiting a drone factory in St. Petersburg
Zensky has destroyed the United States for 'help' Vladimir Putin 'to get out of isolation'
Donald Trump (depicted today) seems to have blamed Ukraine on the Russian invasion
Zensky said that he would like “Trump's team to be more true to be more true” in response to the striking claims of the American president – including the suggestion that Kyiv was blamed for the war, which went in his fourth year next week.
The Ukrainian president disputed Trump's claims that the US has given Ukraine $ 500 billion and called the suggestion that Kiev pays back with a mineral exploratory deal 'no serious conversation'.
“Look, we all want a victory, and we want Trump to win, and we want Ukraine to win, we all succeed,” he said. “But there is nothing clear here … I protect Ukraine. I can't sell it away. I can't sell our state. '
Referring to yesterday's American Russian conversations in Riyadh, Zensky added: “I believe that the United States helped Putin to break from years of isolation … This all has no positive effect on Ukraine.”
Putin said today in his comments that Trump had told him that Ukraine will participate in future conversations, adding that there was no need for a 'hysterical' response to yesterday's meeting.
“We don't impose anyone. We are ready, I have said this a hundred times – if they want, let these negotiations take place. And we will be ready to return to the table for negotiations, “he said. “Nobody excludes Ukraine.”
Zensky said that the conversations had come as a 'surprise' for Kiev, with fears there and throughout Europe that Ukraine is being frozen from negotiations, which can be forced by Washington to accept an unfavorable peace agreement.
Moscow will have welcomed Trump's interrogation of Zelensky's legitimacy during the briefing last night in Mar-A-Lago, where he suggested that it was 'too long' since Ukraine had held elections to have a place at the negotiating table.
Although he insisted that this point was “not a requirement of Russia,” The claim came directly from Moscow's playbook and could not mention that the recent elections of Russia were decorated in 2024, killed, imprisoned or banned with Putin's enemies.
Trump wrongly claimed that the Ukrainian president is only supported by four percent of the Ukrainians.
In response to these claims, Zensky referred to a poll from the KYIV International Institute of Sociology, which shows that 57 percent of the Ukrainians trust him.
He added that any attempt to replace him during the war would fail.
“Unfortunately, President Trump – I have a lot of respect for him as a leader of a nation for which we have a lot of respect, the American people who always support us – unfortunately lives in this disinformation room,” Zensky said.
The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov praised Trump for 'public and loud' the conflict about movements to allow Kiev to admit NATO -Militarian Alliance and said 'H' He is the first … and only Western leader 'who does this.
President Trump spoke with reporters last night and focused on Zensky to express the concern that his country had not been at the table on Tuesday for conversations between Washington and Moscow.
'I think I have the power to end this war, and I think things are going very well. But today I heard, “Oh, well, we were not invited.” Well, you've been there for three years, “he said about Zensky.
“You should have ended it. You should never have started it. You could have closed a deal. I could have closed a deal for Ukraine. '
After the meeting between us and Russian officials in Riyad, Trump said that he was 'much more confidence' that a peace agreement could be concluded.
American and Russian delegations that attend the bilateral meeting in the Diriyah Palace on Tuesday
“They were very good,” he said. “Russia wants to do something. They want to stop the wild barbarism. '
The stunning claim came when the armed forces of Vladimir Putin launched a sizzling air raid on the Ukrainian city of Odesa at night, hit a children's clinic and kindergarten and left a large part of the city without power.
Germany responds today to Trump's comments and emphasized that it was Putin who launched the Ukraine war.
“Nobody except Putin started or wanted this war in the heart of Europe,” said Analena Baerbock Minister of Foreign Affairs in a statement, adding that “we work with all our strength to further strengthen Ukraine.”
When asked Trump's comments that Ukraine is responsible for the continuation of the war, a spokeswoman for the French government said that Paris did not understand the logic behind the comments of the US president.
Former British Defense Minister Ben Wallace said that the White House has rinsed 'fake news' on Ukraine and has made Trump's suggestion that Kyiv should blame the war as one of the 'talk points' of the Kremlin.
Jack Lopresti, another ex-Tory Member of Parliament, who has now reached the army in Ukraine, said that the US had been taken 'for fools' by Putin.
'I don't think [Putin] Has some interest in peace, he still builds his army, he has picked up his defense production and he just leaned back, “he told Sky News.
He added that where American leadership is missing, the UK works' to get Europe on board and allow them to perform their defensive and offensive possibilities.
“We know what happens next, if Putin wins here, he won't stop in Ukraine.”
