Republican senators support Trump’s call for Ukraine elections

Republican legislators are supporting the president Donald Trump’s The insistence that Ukraine celebrates elections, even if they do not share their belief that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a “dictator.”

“I think you have to give them some space … there is an ongoing negotiation,” said Senator John Thune, RS.D.

Trump Tuesday night said Ukraine “should never have begun” war, and doubled by calling Zelenskyy a “dictator” because Ukraine has not celebrated elections since Russia invaded the country in 2022.

“Ukraine clearly did not begin this war”, Senator Pete Ricketts, Republican of Neb., Wrote in X. “The fact is that Russia invaded Ukraine and must be responsible. Otherwise, the aggressors will be encouraged in their bad actions.”

Even so, Nebraska Senator praised Trump for trying to finish the war.

Trump calls the Zelenskyy of Ukraine a ‘dictator without elections’ as the crack is extended

Senator Josh Hawley, Republican from Mo., supported the president’s impulse for elections. “We made elections during World War II. Great Britain held elections during World War II. If they are a democracy, they should celebrate elections. I don’t think it’s difficult, “he told journalists on Thursday.

“(Zelenskyy) is the elected leader of the country, “said Hawley.” But, you know, at a certain point you have to celebrate elections. “

Vice President JD Vance was in Capitol Hill for a lunch with the Republican senators, but the bold statement of the president about the Ukrainian leader was not a topic of discussion, according to Hawley.

Zelenskyy that Originally for re -election In April 2024, but the bars of the Constitution of Ukraine celebrate elections until the President raised the order of the martial law that he instituted after the invasion of 2022.

“Well, we have to have elections,” Senator Lindsey Graham, RS.C. said when asked about the comments.

“When it comes to blaming the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I blamed Putin over all others,” Graham added in an X position, claiming that Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden were “pathetically weak when driving Putin and He failed to protect Ukraine from the invasion of the invasion ”

Even so, Graham called Trump Ukraine’s “best hope.” Trump “will achieve this goal of Trump,” he said.

Graham spoke with Zelenskyy on Wednesday, according to the Ukrainian leader. “As always, Senator Graham is constructive and does a long time to help closer peace,” he said.

“Do not be mistaken about it, that invasion was the responsibility of a human being in the face of this planet. It was Vladimir Putin“Senator Thom Tillis, RN.C., told reporters.

Tillis said he believed that Putin planned to roll for the Baltic states and “send the signal to China that is now the moment” that they can take care of Taiwan.

“That’s what it is about, and that we have to communicate.”

Senator John Kennedy, Republican of La-La.

Senator Mike Rounds, RS.D., called Zelenskyy the “duly elected president of Ukraine,” but said he did not believe that US politics were aligning with Ukraine.

Ukraine defenders say that postwar elections would be a much better option, but the elections offer Russia the opportunity to sow chaos.

“I think it is wrong at those points,” said Senator Kevin Cramer, RS.D. “Nor do I know what his motive (is) behind him. As a negotiator, he is always positioning, and is in a negotiating humor these days.”

Trump’s comments were produced just after Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and the Envoy of the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, traveled to Saudi Arabia to meet with their Russian counterparts.

The team returned with an agreement to increase the diplomatic presence in the nation of the other and an agreed need for elections in Ukraine.

Russia has insisted that it will not sign a peace agreement until Ukraine agrees .

General Valerii Zaluzhny, probably the most formidable opponent of Zelenskyy in a re -election campaign, said that he would not mean the idea of ​​running against the president of Ukraine until the war ends.

“When such conditions arrive, I will be ready to give an answer to such a question. For now, our task is to support and save our nation. And only after that we will think of other things.”

Zelenskyy, according to Trump, “refuses to have choices, is very low in Ukrainian surveys, and the only thing in what was good was to play Biden ‘like a violin’.”

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“A dictator without choices, Zelenskyy is better to move quickly or will not have a country. Meanwhile, we are successfully negotiating the end of the war with Russia, something that everyone admits” Trump “and the Trump administration, can Do, “Trump said. “Biden never tried, Europe has not been able to bring peace, and Zelenskyy probably wants .

Dmitry Medvedev, a senior Kremlin security official, commented: “If you had told me only three months ago that these were words of the president of the United States, I would have laughed out loud. (Trump) is a correct 200 percent ( about Zelenskyy).