Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump have traded accusations over the Russia–Ukraine war and how Zelenskyy’s team is faring nearly three years into the conflict.
“Think of it, a modestly successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, talked the United States of America into spending $350 Billion Dollars, to go into a War that couldn’t be won, that never had to start, but a War that he, without the U.S. and ‘TRUMP,’ will never be able to settle,” Trump wrote in a Feb. 19 social media post.
He made the comments one day after a U.S. delegation met with Russian officials in Saudi Arabia to discuss a peace settlement in the Ukraine conflict and improve U.S.–Russia relations more broadly. Ukrainian representatives were not present, and Zelenskyy has sought to distance himself from the meeting and its outcomes….