A journalist asked Trump, who was in the Oval office next to the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, if he believes that Zelenski, with whom he will meet this Friday, is a dictator. Given this, the American responded jocularly: “I said that? I can’t believe I said that. Next question. ”
Relationships between Washington and kyiv are going through a especially tense moment After Trump surprised Europe and Ukraine when announcing, on February 12, who had spoken by phone with Putin and reached an agreement with Moscow to start “negotiations immediately” with the aim of ending war.
That First contact between Delegations from the United States and Russia took place on February 18 in Saudi Arabia, in conversations that could lead to a summit between Trump and Putin. However, neither kyiv nor European countries participated in themwhich generated discomfort in the continent.
Zelenski protested by the exclusion of kyiv in these conversations and, last week, intensified his confrontation with Trumpwhom he accuses of living in a bubble of “misinformation” driven by Russiawhile the US president has responded by qualifying the Ukrainian leader as “dictator.”
Q: Do you still think that Mr. Zelenskyy is a dictator? “
President Trump: “Did I say that? pic.twitter.com/2yey8vgj0r
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