Trump savages Zelensky after he says deal with Russia is ‘very far away’

Donald Trump slammed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky today, saying he wasn’t interested in finding peace.

He renewed his attack on Zelensky after his Ukrainian counterpart said peace with Russia ‘is still very, very far away.’ That infuriated Trump who has upped the pressure on Kyiv to end the war.

‘This is the worst statement that could have been made by Zelensky, and America will not put up with it for much longer,’ Trump posted on his Truth Social website.

On Friday, Zelensky’s visit to the White House was cut short after they clashed in the Oval Office over whether or not Russian President Vladimir Putin could be trusted.

Zelensky then traveled to the UK where European leaders – among them France, Germany and the UK – and Canada scrambled to thrash out a joint position on Ukraine at an emergency summit before reiterating their support for the war-torn country.

Trump said: ‘It is what I was saying, this guy doesn’t want there to be Peace as long as he has America’s backing and, Europe, in the meeting they had with Zelensky, stated flatly that they cannot do the job without the U.S.’

He added in what appeared to be an attack on European leaders: ‘Probably not a great statement to have been made in terms of a show of strength against Russia. What are they thinking?’

This comes after NATO chief Mark Rutte last night pointed to promises from more European countries to ‘ramp up defence spending’, while insisting that Washington remained committed to the transatlantic alliance.

French President Emmanuel Macron suggested that European countries should raise their defence spending to between 3.0 and 3.5 percent of GDP to respond to Washington’s shifting priorities and Russia’s militarisation.

Last week, British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced that the UK would increase its defence spending to 2.5 per cent of its GDP, slashing the aid budget, with plans to increase military spending to three per cent soon after.