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Trump calls Zelenskiy a ‘dictator without elections’

US president Donald Trump has denounced Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy as “a dictator ...

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08.00 20 Feb 2025


Trump calls Zelenskiy a ‘dictator without elections’


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US president Donald Trump has denounced Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy as “a dictator without elections”  

In a post on his truth social media platform, Trump called Zelensky a "modestly successful comedian" who had "talked the US into "spending $350 billion dollars, to go into a war that couldn't be won, that never had to start".  We get reaction to what President Trump has said with Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and Misha Glenny, author and broadcaster, and the Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.


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