U.S. President Donald Trump launched a fresh attack on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday, labeling him a “dictator without elections” and warning that Ukraine risks losing its sovereignty.
“A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left,” Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social.
This marks the second consecutive day of Trump’s public criticism of Zelensky. On Tuesday, he accused the Ukrainian president of starting the war with Russia, prompting Zelensky to respond that Trump is living in “a bubble of Russian misinformation.”
One of Moscow’s longstanding criticisms—now echoed by Trump—is that Zelensky’s presidential term expired in May and that Ukraine must hold new elections. Kyiv, however, maintains that Zelensky’s mandate remains valid under martial law, which has been in effect since Russia’s invasion in February 2022.
In his latest Truth Social post, Trump accused Zelensky of misleading the U.S. into spending $350 billion on a “war that couldn’t be won” and suggested that Biden had failed to demand equal financial contributions from Europe. He also alleged that Zelensky had admitted to billions of U.S. aid dollars going missing.
“In the meantime, we are successfully negotiating an end to the War with Russia, something all admit only ‘TRUMP,’ and the Trump Administration, can do,” Trump claimed, arguing that neither Biden nor European leaders had made meaningful progress toward peace.
Source: ANA-MPA, Translated by: Konstantinos Menyktas
