The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, replied the accusation of Donald Trump during the night that Ukraine began his war with Russia, saying that the US president is caught in a “misinformation bubble” and added that his country was not on sale.
The struggle response followed Trump’s amazing comments on Tuesday that Ukraine was responsible for the country’s Russian invasion three years ago. Trump also argued that Kyiv could have made a deal to avoid the conflict.
The president added that the approval qualifications of his Ukrainian counterpart sat 4% in Ukraine, despite an opinion survey published Wednesday by the International Institute of Sociology of kyiv that shows that 57% of Ukrainians trust Zelenskyy.
“While we are talking about 4%, we have seen this misinformation, we understand that it comes from Russia,” Zelenskyy said at a press conference in kyiv on Wednesday, when he dismissed Trump’s claim.
He added that any attempt to replace it during the war would fail: Trump raised the question of the Ukrainian elections after the repeated statements of Russian President Vladimir Putin that Zelenskyy is not the legitimate leader of Ukraine, holding that the overwhelming majority of Ukraine The concessions to Russia.
“The army is quite resistant, and is the most resistant in Europe … and guarantees us the opportunity to speak with dignity and on equal footing with other partners: allies or not allies,” said Zelenskyy.
Referring to the support of the United States granted to Ukraine so far ($ 67 billion in arms and $ 31.5 billion in budget support: Zelenskyy said that the US demands that Ukraine should deliver $ 500 billion in minerals “was not a It would be “conversation” and added that he cannot sell his country.
Zelenskyy’s statements occurred the day after President Trump responded to the comments that the Ukrainian leader had done before not wanting “anyone making decisions behind us.”
Speaking to journalists at their Mar-a-Lago resort on Tuesday night, Trump said he believed he had the power to end the war in Ukraine, “but today I heard: ‘Oh, well, we were not invited.’ Well, you’ve been there for three years. ”
“You should never have started it,” he added. “You could have made a deal.”
The reaction in Moscow to the broader change in the direction of foreign policy of the United States has been more optimistic. Speaking to Russian legislators on Wednesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov did not directly address Trump’s comments, but suggested that Kremlin was satisfied with conversations so far.
The president of the United States is: “The first, and until now, apparently, the only western leader who has said public and loud that one of the fundamental causes of the Ukrainian situation was the shameless path of the previous administration to attract to Ukraine to NATO “. Said Lavrov. “No western leader has said this”,
“This is already a sign that our position understands,” Lavrov added, in a speech that covered Trump’s second broader administration instead of the president’s specific comments on Tuesday.
The Kremlin will also have been pleased with Trump’s comment that Ukrainians may be asking about the state of the country’s next elections.
In doing so, the president echoed the criticism of Vladimir Putin, who has governed Russia during all but four of the last 25 years, but has repeatedly questioned the electoral legitimacy of the continuous leadership of Zelenskyy.
Ukraine last celebrated the presidential elections in 2019 and should have celebrated last April, but Zelenskyy has said in the past that it is not possible for Ukrainians to go to surveys in times of war and that opinion is also backed by the Constitution of the country.
According to a survey of the PEW Research Center published earlier this month, 47% of Americans approve the work performance of President Trump to some extent.
