Donald Trump has called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “dictator” and warned that he “better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left”, in a deepening rift between Washington and Kyiv.
The US president hit out at his Ukrainian counterpart in a post on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday, hours after Zelenskyy accused Trump of living in a “disinformation bubble” and disputed his $500bn bill for aid to the war-torn country.
The bitter exchange comes after Trump upended decades of US policy by convening bilateral talks with Moscow on the Ukraine war without inviting Kyiv and blaming Zelenskyy for Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022.