‘Destroying’ of the United States, Ukraine ambassador to the United Kingdom says

The United States is “destroying” the established world order, said Ukraine ambassador to the United Kingdom.

Criticizing the way in which the new Trump administration manages foreign policy, Valeii Zaluzhnyi said that the White House had “questioned the unity of the entire western world.”

Their comments arrive in an apparent tensions cooling between the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, and his American counterpart Donald Trump, after a public fall between the two in the Oval office on Friday.

kyiv has tried to repair relations with Washington in recent days, after the United States stopped its military aid to Ukraine and the exchange of intelligence in an attempt to take Zelensky to the negotiating table.

But the comments of Mr. Zaluzhnyi at a conference at Chatham House in London on Thursday suggest that there is a discontent about the actions of the United States.

He told an audience: “We see that it is not only the axis of evil and Russia trying to review the world order, but that the United States is finally destroying this order.”

The Ukrainian envoy added that the conversations between the United States and Russia, the last of which “headed a war criminal” in President Vladimir Putin, showed that the White House was taking “steps towards the Kremlin, trying to face them in half.”

Zaluzhnyi, who assumed the position of kyiv ambassador to London in 2024 after three years as commander in chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, also suggested that NATO could cease to exist as a result of the Washington posture change, and warned that Moscow’s next goal could be Europe. “

Although Zelensky has expressed the desire to put Ukraine in Ukraine on Swiftly, kyiv has expressed concern about the management of Trump administration conversations and concessions to Moscow that can be done without security guarantees for Ukraine.

Trump promised during the electoral campaign of the United States to end the war quickly, and an American delegation met with a Russian for preliminary conversations in Saudi Arabia last month, without the European or Ukrainian representatives present.

After that, Zelensky accused Trump of living in a “disinformation space” after the president of the United States repeated some of Moscow’s statements, including that Ukraine was responsible for starting the war, which led the latter to call Zelensky a “dictator.”

The United States’s decision to stop Ukraine It has been launched by Trump administration officials as a means to make kyiv Coopere with the peace conversations led by the United States.

The pause was welcomed by the Kremlin, while it has He raised concerns that Ukraine can only be maintained for months.

Zelensky has made since then Conciliatory Oberturas to TrumpNot to mention the security guarantees of the United States, he said previously that they were necessary to avoid greater Russian aggression. Trump said he appreciated Zelensky’s comments.

Zaluzhnyi said that the pause in the exchange of intelligence, as well as a previous decision to oppose a UN resolution that condemn Russian aggression in Ukraine, were “a great challenge for everyone.”