Zelensky says Trump lives in the “misinformation space”

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has responded to kyiv’s criticism for Donald Trump, saying that his American counterpart is “living in a disinformation space” created by Russia.

On Tuesday, President Trump seemed to blame Ukraine for the war and suggested that the popularity rating of the Ukrainian leader was as low as 4%. Trump spoke after the US conversations in Saudi Arabia that left Ukraine.

In his first comments after the conversations, Vladimir Putin de Russia said he described the conversations in Riad “very highly” and that Trump had told him that Ukraine would be part of any process of future conversations.

Zelensky said it was the right of the United States to discuss bilateral issues, but that the United States had helped Putin “out of years of isolation.”

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who participated in the conversations, praised President Trump for accepting the repeated statement of Moscow that “one of the fundamental causes” of war was the “aggressive line of the Biden administration of drag Ukraine to NATO. “

Trump’s Ukraine envoy, Keith Kellogg, arrived in kyiv on Wednesday on a mission of “sitting and listening to” to the position of Ukraine. Kellogg was not part of the American team who met Russian officials in Riyadh.

Almost three years after Russia launched its large -scale invasion of Ukraine, European nations have been fighting to respond to this week’s developments.

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, held informal conversations about Ukraine on Wednesday with leaders from several European and Canada states.

Speaking to journalists on Wednesday, Zelensky accused Russia of lying during the “notorious meeting” on Tuesday in the Saudi capital, where the United States and Russia agreed to begin negotiating the end of the war.

“With due respect to President Donald Trump as a leader … He is living in this disinformation space,” he said.

He added that Ukraine had “evidence” that Russia was spreading misinformation about its approval index, and “these numbers are being discussed between the United States and Russia.”

Zelensky won a period of five years in 2019, and has remained in office because the elections have been suspended since the martial law was declared after the large -scale invasion of Russia.

When asked about the statements made about his popularity, Zelensky said that although he never commented on popular qualifications, an opinion survey put it at 58%.

He said he wanted Trump’s Ukraine envoy “to walk the streets of kyiv” and “see everything by himself.”

Zelensky also made it clear that he would not sell his country in exchange for future security guarantees that gave the United States a great participation in the mineral resources of Ukraine.

He said the war has cost $ 320 billion so far (£ 254 billion), of which around $ 200 billion (£ 159 billion) had come from the United States and the EU.

He said that the United States had claimed that 90% of Ukraine’s support had emerged from them, and although he was grateful for US support, “the truth is elsewhere.”

In a subsequent publication on X, he wrote: “We must never forget that Russia is governed by pathological liars: they cannot be trusted and should be pressed.”

On Tuesday, Trump spoke with journalists at his Mar-A-Lago residence. “I heard they are upset about not having a seat,” he said.

“Well, they have had a seat for three years and a long time before.

European allies have also begun to endure Trump’s comments.

“Nobody, but Putin began or wanted this war in the heart of Europe,” said German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock. “We are at an existential point of reference for security and peace in Europe.”

French government spokeswoman Sophie Primas said: “We struggle to understand American logic”, while we reiterate the support of her country to Ukraine.

On Monday, the leaders of several European Member States of NATO gathered in Paris to talk about what could be done to help Ukraine.

A proposed idea was to send peace forces to Ukraine, although Sergei Lavrov rejected it as unacceptable.

Trump, on the other hand, called him “great,” saying that he was in favor of what they wanted to do, but that US troops would not be deployed since the United States was “very far.”