Russia’s Foreign Ministry has said the trip of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy of Ukraine to Washington on Friday was a political and diplomatic failure, stating that he was obsessed with continuing to wage war.
Media Talk Africa reports that Zelenskiy and US President Donald Trump clashed at a White House meeting on Friday, plunging ties between Kyiv and the United States, its main military backer to a new low.
“The visit … to Washington on February 28 is a complete political and diplomatic failure by the Kyiv regime,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a written statement published on Saturday on the ministry’s website.
According to her, Zelenskiy’s behaviour at the White House as outrageously boorish, adding that the Ukrainian president was an unabashed cynic, whose main goal was to keep power.
“For the sake of this, he has destroyed the opposition, built a totalitarian state and ruthlessly sends millions of citizens to their deaths,” Zakharova added.
Meanwhile, Kyiv has previously dismissed such accusations.
Zelenskiy had seen the meeting as an opportunity to convince the US not to side with Russian President Vladimir Putin and openly challenged Trump over his softer approach towards the Russian leader.
