US President Donald Trump has called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky an \u201cunelected dictator\u201d. He made the comments on his social media account Truth Social on Wednesday. Zelensky had earlier accused Trump of living in a Russia-influenced \u201cworld of fake news\u201d.<\/p>\n
Russia annexed Ukraine\u2019s Black Sea peninsula of Crimea in 2014. Then, in February 2022, Russian forces launched a full-scale military invasion of the neighboring country. The nearly three-year-old war is likely to end for the first time. A Washington-Moscow meeting is being held in Saudi Arabia within a month of Trump taking office as US president. However, no one from Ukraine has been invited to this meeting.<\/p>\n
Zelensky fears that Trump is trying to end the war in a way that will give Moscow more advantages than Kiev.<\/p>\n
Trump has accused Zelensky of refusing to hold elections in Ukraine. The election was scheduled for April 2024, but was delayed after the Russian invasion in February 2022.<\/p>\n
Trump has contemptuously described Zelensky as a \u201cfairly successful comedian.\u201d He said Zelensky \u201chas gotten the United States to spend $350 billion, into a war that it can\u2019t win, a war that should never have been started, a war that he (Zelensky) can never solve without the United States and \u2018Trump.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The US leader refused to say during a political debate last year that Ukraine should win the war. \u201cHe (Zelensky) would have done one thing well, he said, and that was to play (former US President Joe) Biden like an instrument to get military aid.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump said, \u201cI love Ukraine, but Zelensky has done a terrible job, his country is in ruins and millions of people have died needlessly \u2014 and that\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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