In a deepening row with his Ukrainian leader, President Donald Trump has branded his counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky as a “dictator”.
Trump’s diatribe came after Zelensky hit out at US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia, with Ukraine having no place at the negotiating table. He claimed the US president was “living in a disinformation space” governed by Moscow.
The BBC quoted Trump as telling an investment meeting in Florida that the Ukrainian president was really good at playing Joe Biden like a fiddle.
Trump’s hard-hitting statement came a day ahead of Zelensky’s meeting with US envoy for Russia and Ukraine Keith Kellogg.
Hours before his speech in Florida, Trump wrote in a Truth Social post about the Ukrainian president: “He refuses to have elections. He’s low in the real Ukrainian polls. How can you be high with every city being demolished?”
In his address, Trump said Zelensky “has done a terrible job, his country is shattered, and MILLIONS have unnecessarily died.”
Meanwhile, the Republican leader claimed, the US was “successfully negotiating an end to the war with Russia”.
Zelensky told journalists in Kyiv on Wednesday: “We are seeing a lot of disinformation and it’s coming from Russia. With all due respect to President Donald Trump as a leader… he is living in this disinformation space.”
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