EU reaffirms support for Zelenskyy as legitimate president of Ukraine
The wave of support for Zelenskyy comes after US President Donald Trump called him a 'dictator' and criticised the fact elections didn’t take place last year when his mandate expired, despite Ukraine being subject to martial law.
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The wave of support for Zelenskyy comes after US President Donald Trump called him a 'dictator' and criticised the fact elections didn’t take place last year when his mandate expired, despite Ukraine being subject to martial law.
READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/02/20/eu-reaffirms-support-for-zelenskyy-as-legitimate-president-of-ukraine
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00:00There's been a flurry of support across Europe for Volodymyr Zelensky after US President
00:06Donald Trump called him a dictator.
00:09On Wednesday, Trump questioned Zelensky's position as president after his mandate expired
00:14in May last year and no new elections were called.
00:17The European Commission said that Ukraine is a democracy and that Zelensky is a fairly
00:22elected leader.
00:24President Zelensky was legitimately elected in free, fair and democratic elections.
00:32Ukraine is a democracy, Putin's Russia is not.
00:37Those words of support were echoed by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and British Prime Minister
00:41Keir Starmer.
00:43Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron will head to the White House next week to
00:47discuss efforts to end the war in Ukraine.
00:51Starmer said that Ukraine must have a seat at the negotiating table, a viewpoint supported
00:56by Slovakia's president.
01:16Meanwhile, a press conference with US President Donald Trump's Ukraine envoy in Zelensky was
01:20cancelled at the request of the US delegation.
01:24Zelensky and retired US General Keith Kellogg were supposed to speak after their meeting
01:28in Kiev.
01:29The US delegation made no comment about why it was called off.