His attacks were reported after Zelensky reacted to a meeting between Trump and Putin in Saudi Arabia, during which Zelensky was excluded. Ukraine’s president mentioned that Trump was “living in a disinformation space” governed by Moscow.

Zelensky’s five-year term of office was due to end in May 2024. However, Ukraine has been under martial law since Russia launched the first missiles in Ukraine, and they have suspended the elections.

Trump voluntarily criticized the president of Ukraine for doing a “terrible job” and claimed “he refuses to have elections” in Ukraine. “He refuses to have elections. He’s low in the real Ukrainian polls. How can you be high with every city being demolished?”, Trump said. He also mentioned that the only thing Zelensky was good at “was playing Joe Biden like a fiddle”.

Later, Sir Keir Starmer, the president of the UK, called Zelensky to tell him it was perfectly reasonable to suspend elections during wartime, just like the UK did during World War two. He also backed Volodymyr as a “democratically elected leader” after Donald Trump described Ukraine’s president as a “dictator”.

Sir Keir will travel to Washington, D.C., to have his first in-person meeting with Trump. He wants to discuss a “US backstop,” in other words, a protection from the US, that he affirms is necessary to deter Russia from attacking Ukraine again.

Not just the UK’s president is against Trump’s words, but many leaders of other countries in Europe criticized Trump’s use of the word “dictator”. The German Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, called the comments “absurd”.

The former prime minister of Ukraine also showed his support to Zelensky.”Volodymyr Zelensky is a completely legitimate president,” he said. “We cannot hold elections under martial law.”