Volodimir Zelenski responds to Donald Trump. The Ukrainian president believes that his American counterpart is caught in a “Russian misinformation space”after the Republican president blamed Ukraine of the invasion and questioned the legitimacy of Zelenski himself, thus buying the Kremlin speech and justifying its exclusion from peace negotiations.
Tuesday, Trump said Kyiv “should never have started” wara conflict that is about to turn and three years old and that exploded when Moscow invaded the neighboring country. He also influenced the fact that Ukraine has not held presidential elections since before the war and slid that the levels of support to President Zelenski have fallen to 4%. According to the latest data from the KYIV International Institute of Sociology, however, The trust in him is 52%.
Zelenski has refuted these Trump statements at a press conference from the Ukrainian capital this Wednesday, collected by Reuters and AP. “We have seen this misinformation, we understand that it comes from Russia“, he said, adding that he has” evidence that these numbers are being discussed between the United States and Russia. ”
“President Trump, with great respect for him as leader of his people, whom we respect a lot, the American people, who constantly support us, unfortunately Live in this misinformation space“Zelenski lamented. He responded to Trump’s words that came after the encounter between Russia and the United States in Riyad, a negotiating table to which neither Ukraine nor Europe were invited, and from which the commitment to open A negotiating process for peace.
For Zelenski, who planned to visit Saudi Arabia on Wednesday and has not done so, precisely, to avoid coinciding with these contacts, “discussing their bilateral affairs in Saudi Arabia is their right”, but at the same time believes that “The United States is helping Putin out of isolation years taxes absolutely fair after its large -scale invasion. “
The president, however, has assured that “nobody is upset.” “We are ready for whatever. The story that 90% of all the aid comes from the United States, we understand that, well, the truth is slightly different, although, of course, we are grateful for the assistance,” he slipped . “That is why I would like Trump’s team to be more truthfulbecause all this certainly does not have a positive impact on Ukraine, but it helps to get Putin out of isolation, “he warned.
Trump wants 50% of Ukrainian resources
On the other hand, Zelenski has also indicated that the United States has asked to keep the Half of the natural resources of Ukraine without offering written guarantees about the continuity of your support or security.
“The document was not clear, it was only clear in one thing, which We had to give 50% of everything The specified in the document, “he said about the draft prepared by Washington, according to the UKRinform agency, cited in turn by Efe. The Ukrainian president has added that the US proposal It did not contain any reference to security guarantees In exchange for these resources, as Kyiv expected.
Trump expects Ukraine to pay with his natural resources the amount of the aid offered to Kyiv in the US and has encrypted in 500,000 million dollars The benefit that Washington must obtain. In the same press conference, Zelenski has refuted those figures.
“We have to clarify those numbers. Unfortunately, They do not match reality. The war has cost us 320,000 million; 120,000 million covered by Ukrainian taxpayers and 200,000 million supplied by the US and the EU, especially in military aid, “said Zelenski, which has specified that the contribution of the United States has been 67,000 million dollars in military assistance and 31,500 in Direct help to the Ukrainian budget.
Source: Lasexta
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