US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for rejecting the deal with Russia and allegedly making “slanderous remarks” about Trump, Babel writes.
The president of Ukraine is in our country, he’s making some nasty little slanders against your favorite president, me, – Trump said at a campaign rally in Mint Hill, North Carolina.
According to Bloomberg, Trump added that the United States is “giving billions of dollars” to a man who refuses to make a deal with Russia.
The publication emphasizes that these comments by Donald Trump were some of the harshest public statements he has made about a full-scale war and the Ukrainian president.
The sources also note that the way Volodymyr Zelenskyy began his trip to the United States irritated Trump’s supporters. First, Zelenskyy stopped by an artillery shell factory in US President Joe Biden’s hometown of Pennsylvania, where the state’s Democratic governor, a supporter of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, was present.
It is also worth adding that Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, who is associated with Trump, is demanding that Ukraine’s Ambassador to the United States, Oksana Markarova, be fired, allegedly because she is unreliable and ineffective. The reason for this was Zelenskyy’s visit to a plant in Pennsylvania. He called it a “guerrilla campaign”.
Zelenskyy then gave an interview to The New Yorker magazine, in which he questioned Trump’s promises to negotiate a quick end to the war if he won the election. Zelenskyy wanted to present Trump and his team with a victory plan, but they refused. The President of Ukraine told reporters that Ukraine’s victory plan is aimed at strengthening the country’s position for future diplomatic negotiations with Russia. Kyiv believes that a ceasefire without clear guarantees will give Putin the opportunity to attack Ukraine again after rearming.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to end the war through negotiations, but has never said how exactly that would be.
