Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Wednesday that US President Donald Trump lived in a “Russian manufacturing disinformation space due to the discussions of his administration with Kremlin officials.
Zelenskyy said he “would like Trump’s team to be more truthful”.
He made the comments shortly before he met Keith Kellogg, the American special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, who arrived in kyiv on Wednesday. Kellogg will meet Zelenskyy and military commanders while the United States moved away from years of efforts to isolate Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Trump suggested on Tuesday that kyiv was responsible for the war, who entered his fourth year next week, while talks between the best American and Russian diplomats in Saudi Arabia have sidelined Ukraine and its European supporters.
French President Emmanuel Macron was to have a videoconference on Ukraine later Wednesday with leaders of more than 15 countries, mainly European countries, “in order to bring together all the partners interested in peace and security” on the continent said his office.
The main European leaders held an emergency meeting in Paris on Monday after feeling that they had been sidelined by the Trump administration.
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Trump’s comments are likely to upset Ukrainian officials, who have urged the world to help them combat the Russia’s large -scale invasion that started on February 24, 2022.
Trump also told Mar-A-Lago that Zelenskyy’s note was 4%.
Zelenskyy responded at a press conference in the Ukrainian capital kyiv that “we saw this disinformation. We understand that it comes from Russia. “He said Trump” lives in this disinformation space “.
Trump also suggested that Ukraine should hold elections, which have been postponed due to the substantial war and taxation of martial law, in accordance with the Ukrainian Constitution.
Zelenskyy has questioned complaints, which he did not specify, that 90% of all aid received by Ukraine come from the United States.
He said that, for example, around 34% of all weapons in Ukraine are produced at the national level, more than 30% of support comes from Europe and up to 40% of the United States
The battlefield has also brought Grim News to Ukraine in recent months. An implacable assault in the eastern regions by the largest army in Russia is the Ukrainian forces, which are slowly but regularly pushed back at certain times in the front line of 1000 kilometers (600 miles).
Trump told journalists from his Florida residence on Tuesday that Ukraine “should never have started” war and “could have concluded an agreement” to prevent it.
Kellogg said his visit to kyiv was “a chance to have good substantial discussions”. On Wednesday, Zelenskyy was to go to Saudi Arabia, but canceled his trip to what some analysts saw as an attempt to deny legitimacy for American Russia to talk about the future of his country.
US officials have indicated that Ukraine’s hope to join NATO in order to ward off Russian assault after having concluded a possible peace agreement will not occur. Zelenskyy says that any regulation will require US security commitments to keep Russia remotely.
“We understand the need for security guarantees,” said Kellogg in the comments brought by the Ukrainian public broadcaster Susilne Novyny when he arrived at kyiv station.
“It is very clear for us the importance of the sovereignty of this nation and the independence of this nation as well. … Part of my mission is to sit and listen to, “said the three -star retired general.
Kellogg said he would transmit what he would learn during his visit to Trump and the Secretary of State Marco Rubio to “and make sure that we get it properly”.
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