The United States “destroys” the established World Order, said Ukraine ambassador to the United Kingdom.
Shouting the way of the new Trump administration to manage foreign policy, Valerii Zaluzhnyi said that the White House had “questioned the unity of all Western people”.
His comments arise in the middle of an apparent cooling of tensions between the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and his American counterpart Donald Trump, after a fall of the public between the two in the oval office on Friday.
Kyiv has tried to repair relations with Washington in recent days, after the United States has interrupted its military aid to Ukraine and intelligence in order to bring Zelensky to the negotiation table.
But the remarks of Mr. Zaluzhnyi at a conference in Chatham House in London suggests on Thursday that there remains a dissatisfaction concerning the actions of the United States.
He told an audience: “We see that it is not only the axis of evil and Russia that tries to revise the world order, but the United States finally destroys this order.”
The Ukrainian envoy added that talks between the United States and Russia – the latter of which “led by a war criminal” in President Vladimir Putin – showed that the White House was doing “steps towards the Kremlin, trying to meet them half”.
Mr. Zaluzhnyi, who took office as kyiv’s ambassador to London in 2024 after three years as a commander of the Ukrainian armed forces, also suggested that NATO could cease to exist following the change of posture of Washington and warned that the next target of Moscow “could be Europe”.
While Zelensky quickly expressed the wish to end the war in Ukraine, Kyiv expressed his concerns about the management of the Trump administration of talks and the concessions in Moscow which could be made without security guarantee for Ukraine.
Trump promised during the American electoral campaign to end the war quickly, and an American delegation met a Russian delegation for preliminary talks in Saudi Arabia – without European or Ukrainian representatives.
Following this, Zelensky accused Trump of living in a “disinformation space” after the American president repeated some of Moscow’s claims – including Ukraine was responsible for the trigger for war – encouraging the latter to call Zelensky a “dictator”.
The United States decision to stop helping Ukraine was thrown by officials of the Trump administration as a means of cooperating kyiv With peace talks led by the United States.
The break was greeted by the Kremlin, when it has raised concerns that Ukraine cannot be able to resist a few months.
Zelensky has since done Conciliation openings in TrumpWithout mentioning American security guarantees, it had previously been necessary to prevent a new Russian assault. Trump said he appreciated Zelensky’s remarks.
Zaluzhnyi said that the intelligence break break, as well as a previous decision to oppose a United Nations resolution condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine, were “a huge challenge for the whole world”.
