“The time has come for Ukraine to have a new president.” These have been Donald Trump’s recent statements against his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, after the kyiv bombings of Russian diesel refineries.
This is how the US president expressed himself to the media after the delegation sent by kyiv to Florida to maintain Conversations with the White House special envoys for Ukraine brought forward his return and hours after Trump himself announced that he will authorize Russian operations with diesel until April to control the global rise in prices.
“We told him: ‘You can do whatever you want with Russia, but don’t attack the refineries,’ because that is a global problem that he is causing. And he wants to create problems for the world, problems for our farmers, our ranchers, with diesel fuel, because Russia supplies a large part of the diesel fuel around the world,” he said.
You can do what you want with Russia, but don’t attack the refineries
According to him, Zelensky has not wanted to reach agreements to end the war in Ukraine, a conflict that he considered “began due to incompetence.” “It should never have started. They wouldn’t have lost 30% of their country already.”
At this point, Trump suggests “that they find a new leader who can make a deal, because he could have closed many and, for some reason, he never does.” He reiterates, therefore, that “the time has come for Ukraine to have a new president.”
He could have closed a lot of deals and for some reason he never does
For his part, the Ukrainian leader had already criticized the agreement between the United States and Russia this Friday, something he described as “unfair and unbecoming of an ally.” The agreement in question will allow Russia to export millions of tons of diesel to the US and international markets despite Washington’s sanctions on the Russian energy sector that have weighed on Moscow since the start of the war in 2022.
