According to the interlocutors, the head of the White House repeatedly called Zelensky a “bad guy”, but also said that he understands the behavior of the Ukrainian president in conditions when the city of Ukraine is under fire.
Sources noted that Trump feels enmity both to Zelensky and the illegitimate president of the aggressor country of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, but the head of the White House is more respectful to the latter. After Trump’s statement against the backdrop of the massive Russian shelling of Ukraine in May, that Putin was “crazy”, he gave Russian policy “two weeks” to demonstrate progress in negotiations to stop fire in Ukraine. Now Trump said that he wanted Putin’s help in the conclusion of a nuclear agreement with Iran.
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Trump, who, together with his team, acts as an intermediary in negotiations on the settlement of the Russian war against Ukraine, repeatedly said that he had “very good relations” with Zelensky and Putin. But at the same time during negotiations on the end of the war, like noted The Washington Post, he much more pressed on Ukraine and only Sometimes he expressed dissatisfaction with Russia. He called Zelensky a “dictator”, but refused to call Putin dictator, explaining this by “” does not use such words frivolously. ” Trump also assumed that with Zelensky “It will be easier to deal with.”
However, sometimes Trump’s criticism against Putin intensified. Commenting on the massive rocket-crushed attacks of Russian invaders on Ukraine in May Trump said that Putin was “playing with fire.”
