The United States “destroy” the established world order, Ukraine Ambassador in Great Britain claimed.
Valerii Zaluzhnyi said that the White House “questioned the unity of the western world” and “more and more steps towards” Russia, which in 2022 launched a full invasion of Ukraine.
The comments come when the United States put pressure on Ukraine to make concessions before all peace talks, and after a public collision between the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his American counterpart Donald Trump.
Since then, Zelensky has said that he was “ready to work under Trump’s” strong leadership “, an obvious cooling in tensions that are welcomed by Trump – and that comes in military aid after military help at Kyiv.
But Mr. Zaluzhnyi’s statements at a conference at Chatham House in London on Thursday that it is still dissatisfied with the USA.
He said to an audience: “We see that it is not just Russia and the axis of evil who tries to destroy the world order, but actually destroy the United States completely.”
The Ukrainian envoy added that the talks between the USA and Russia – the latter “by a war criminal” in President Vladimir Putin ” – showed that the White House” took steps towards the Kremlin regime and in this case could be a new goal for Russia “.
Mr. Zaluzhnyi, who took over as Kyiv’s ambassador in London in 2024, proposed after three years as the commander -in -chief of the Ukrainian armed forces that NATO could stop in Washington due to the change in attitude.
While Zelensky has expressed the wish to quickly finish the war in Ukraine, Kyiv has expressed concerns about dealing with the discussions of the Trump government and the concessions to Moscow, which can be made for Ukraine without fixed security guarantees.
Trump vowed during the US election campaign to end the war quickly, and last month preliminary US -Russian conversations were held in Saudi Arabia -without the end of the European or Ukrainian representative present.
The decision of the United States to stop their military support for Ukraine and the secret service Was occupied by Trump administrative officers as a means to bring Kyiv to cooperation With the peace talks conducted by the USA.
Any pressure that the US has exerted on Moscow to make concessions was not published.
Zaluzhnyi said the break in the division of the secret service and an earlier decision to oppose a UN resolution that Russian aggression in Ukraine condemned were “a big challenge for the whole world”.
His comments come when Politico reports that members of Trump’s team had had discussions with some of the political opponents of Zelensky after Trump had proposed allies that the Ukrainian president should cede aside if his term in May expired.
Care for unnamed sources in the USA and Ukraine, it is said that the conversations with the opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko and high -ranking members of the Petro Poroshenk party, which Zelensky preceded as president, were held before the president.
Independent opinion polls in Ukraine indicate that Zaluznyi supports the most public support, Zelensky, 57%with at least 70%, and Poroshenko is about 20%. Tymoshenko and Poroshenko both have their own red lines and share a pro-European attitude.
In the reaction to the report, Tymoshenko said that her team had “spoken to all allies who guarantee just as soon as possible” and found that elections cannot be held under the constitution of Ukraine while he is under war law.
Poroshenko wrote in a long statement that his party has worked “publicly and transparently” in the United States and that the meetings focused on the support of the war efforts in Ukraine.
While he criticized the government of Zelensky because of its political decisions and communication with the United States, he also emphasized that elections could only take place after the signing of an armistice.
While politico’s article pointed out that the Trump government may be aiming for an alternative to Zelensky, these meetings seem to be for many years and both the war and the recent effort of the connections to the United States.
