Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Donald Trump is living in a Russian “disinformation space,” responding to the claim by the US president that Zelensky’s popularity rating is four percent.
“Unfortunately, President Trump, who we have great respect for as leader of the American people… lives in this disinformation space,” Zelensky tells reporters in Kyiv, accusing Moscow of misleading Trump.
Calling for presidential elections in Ukraine, which are banned under martial law, Trump said yesterday of Zelensky: “He’s down at four percent approval rating.”
Zelensky says the figure “comes from Russia.”
A telephone poll of 1,000 people by the respected Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, published today, finds that 57 percent of respondents trusted Zelensky, while 37 percent said they did not and the rest were undecided.
Trump’s comments came after the US and Russian foreign ministers held talks in Saudi Arabia — their first since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 — on resetting relations and finding a way to end the conflict.
Kyiv and its European allies have become alarmed at being cut out of the process with Russia to end the conflict.
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