RT-Engels: 20-02-2025,
Nobody can force Kiev to “give up” the fight against Russia, Foreign Minister Andrey Sibiga has said
Ukrainian officials have rushed to defend the country’s de facto leader, Vladimir Zelensky, after US President Donald Trump branded him “a dictator.”
The public feud between Trump and Zelensky escalated on Wednesday, when the US president called Zelensky “a dictator without elections” and accused him of tricking Washington to funnel aid into “a war that couldn’t be won.” He also claimed that Zelensky was doing “a terrible job” and was “not going to have a country left” unless he reached a ceasefire deal with Russia.
Several prominent politicians, including those who criticized Zelensky’s government in the past, spoke out in his defense. In his post on X, Foreign Minister Andrey Sibiga wrote that Ukraine “withstood the most horrific military attack in Europe’s modern history.”
“The Ukrainian people and their President Zelensky refused to give in to Putin’s pressure,” he stated. “Nobody can force Ukraine to give up.”
“We can like or dislike Zelensky. We can condemn his actions or applaud them. Because he is OUR president,” Boris Filatov, the mayor of Dnepr, Ukraine’s fourth-largest city, wrote on Facebook. He argued that neither the US nor Russia “have any right to badmouth” Zelensky.
Although Zelensky’s five-year presidential term expired in May 2024,