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He (Mr Zelensky) refuses to have elections. The only thing he was really good at was playing Joe Biden like a fiddle. A dictator without elections, Zelensky better move fast. He's not going to have a country left."
Mr Trump, speaking in Miami, said He spoke to President Zelensky in the last few days and made clear he understands, first of all that he is an elected leader, and we consider him in the United Kingdom to be a legitimate leader."
We take a different view. We do not consider President Zelensky to be a dictator."
Asked whether she was saying Mr Trump I think we need to take the heat down from what has become a very heated conversation in public over recent days
Speaking on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, the culture secretary said We are ready to sit down and speak. Pick the platform that you like."
Five days before Russian troops crossed the border, he told the Russians I think Vladimir Putin started the war,
The prime minister expressed his support for President Zelensky as Ukraine's democratically elected leader and said that it was perfectly reasonable to suspend elections during wartime as the UK did during World War II,
We saw this disinformation. We understand it comes from Russia.”
Mr Zelenskiy later said of the US president’s comments 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 US and 'TRUMP,' will never be able to settle,
I rate them highly, there is a result, ... In my opinion, we made the first step to restore work in various areas of mutual interests'
Putin said at a drone factory in Saint Petersburg, adding I don't think [Putin] has any interest in peace whatsoever, he's still building up his military, he's upscaled his defence manufacturing and he's just sitting back letting this all unfold,
I love Ukraine, but Zelenskyy has done a terrible job, his Country is shattered, and MILLIONS have unnecessarily died – And so it continues...
Biden never tried, Europe has failed to bring Peace, and Zelenskyy probably wants to keep the 'gravy train' going.
Look, we all want a victory, and we want Trump to win, and we want Ukraine to win, all of us to succeed,
Trump and Putin are trying to bully Zelensky into having an election in order to install a pro-Moscow president.”
A former head of the British Army, Lord Dannatt, warned I know Mar-a-Largo is quite close to Disney World, but that was pure Disney in both sort of facts and reality."
It is simply wrong and dangerous to deny President Zelenskiy his democratic legitimacy,
30,000 feels still on the on the high side, because the purpose of that force would be predominantly around reassurance and trying to instil some confidence in the Ukraine population and in the state.”
But a senior western official said We know that Ukraine has got to do more with its people.”
Ukraine is under a lot of pressure in the east, but Russia is continuing to take massive casualties for tiny gains of territory.”