US President Donald Trump made a series of allegations about Ukraine and its leader as he seeks end The country’s war for three years with Russia.

Trump’s relationship with Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinski was publicly strained, as Trump Zelinski described as a “dictator” and said he “started” the war with Russia, and he was required to classify her political classification False pants on the fire. The War War escalated after Zelinski Trump accused of repeating Russian wrong information.

Trump, who sent a team to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to start negotiations on ending the war that did not include Ukraine, described Zelinski as a “modestly successful comedy” that was only good in the playing of former US President Joe Biden’s playing “like violin.”

The White House did not respond to a request for comment. Here, we identified six Trump’s allegations about Zelinski and Ukraine:

Claim: Zelinski started the war with Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin has long sought to blame Ukraine for the war he started when he launched invasion On February 24, 2022, Trump replied that the talk point to reporters on Tuesday after Zellinski said that Ukraine had not been invited to the US -Russian talks in Saudi Arabia to end the war.

“I heard today [from Ukraine]”Well, we did not invite.” Well, I was there for three years. I had to finish it for three years – you should never start it. “You could have a deal,” Trump said.

An estimated 46,000 Ukrainian soldiers and at least 12,000 Ukrainian civilians were killed in the conflict.

News coverage, video clips and United Nations documented Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in an actual time. Putin announced that it is a “special military operation” at 6 am in Moscow (03:00 GMT) on February 24, 2022.

“The purpose of this process is to protect people who face eight years now the insult and genocide committed by the Kiev regime,” Putin said in a televised speech. Use a copy of his Russian spelling speech to the head of the capital of Ukraine. “In order to achieve this purpose, we will seek to remove mine or Ukraine Dennisv, as well as transfer those who committed many bloody crimes against civilians, including the citizens of the Russian Federation.”

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Claim

This is a misfortune.

Zelenskyy was democratically elected in March 2019 for a period of five years with more than 73 percent of the votes. He would have received his re -election in March or April last year. However, Ukraine imposed martial law after the invasion of Russia. Ukrainian law prohibits elections under martial law.

Trump described Zelenskyy as “a dictator without elections” in a social publication on Wednesday. In his property in Mar Lago in Florida the day before, reporters Trump asked whether he supports Russia’s demand for Ukraine to hold new elections to reach a peace agreement.

“Yes, I would like to say, as you know, when they want a seat on the table, you can say, people should say – the people of Ukraine will not say, as you know,” has been a long time since we have held elections? “

Millions of Ukrainian citizens have been displaced because of the war or fled the country and many others suffer in the Russian lands, so the elections can deprive many voters.

“Zelinski’s description as a dictator is like Winston Churchill as a dictator because the UK has postponed the elections even after the end of World War II,” said Fatali Mogadam, a professor of psychology at Georgetown University who is looking at democracy and dictators, in an email to politics. “It is clear that the term dictator does not apply to Zelinsky, just as it does not apply to Churchill.”

A spokesman for UK Prime Minister Kiir Starmer told the BBC that “it is fully reasonable to suspend the elections during the war period as the United Kingdom did during World War II,” and Zelinski is the “elected leader” Ukraine.

Putin won his re -election to another six -year period in March in elections that the US National Security Council said was “clearly free or fair.”

“Trump will be correct to use the term dictator to describe Putin, who used fake elections to stay in power for a quarter of a century,” said Mogadam.

Claim: Zelenskyy has 4 percent approval

This is inaccurate. Trump made these comments at a press conference on Tuesday, and it was not clear what survey was martyred. Google and Nexis News database did not find any reports on opinion polls that explain Zelenskyy with 4 percent approval.

In a poll at the Kiev International Sociology Institute, which conducted February 9-9, Zelinski obtained a 57 percent confidence classification among 1,000 Ukrainians surveyed. This fell from 90 percent in May 2022 shortly after Russia’s invasion, but from 52 percent in December 2024.

Some social media users, including the owner of X Elon Musk, sought to discredit the voting by linking the Kiev International Sociology Institute to the American Agency for International Development, which was at the center of distorted claims. Social media publications did not provide any evidence of their claim that the poll is unreliable.

The Ukrainian news website, Okranska Pravda, stated that the country’s leading polling agencies have not published opinion polls showing approval classifications during the war. One that has published approval assessments, the Sotsys group, Zelenskyy shows the approval of 16 percent. Okrinska Pravda said this poll is linked to this former political strategic opinion of the Fifth President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, which Zelinski won in 2019.

Claim: The United States spent $ 350 billion to help Ukraine

This is inaccurate. Trump is almost doubled by the amount allocated or provided by Congress since the war began.

Ukraine’s supervision – the site of the ATLANTIC ResOOLVE operation, which was established by the US government in 2014 to coordinate its military assistance to Ukraine – as of September 30, the United States spent $ 183 billion to help Ukraine.

Mark Kansian, the oldest defense and security adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said that the amount spent by the United States varies according to what is calculated as “assistance to Ukraine”, but most estimates range from 175 billion dollars to $ 185 billion.

“Regardless of what she adds, the total is not close to $ 350 billion,” Kansian said.

The numbers that Trump cited aid to Ukraine contradicts data from the United States government itself. Independent research institutes also said that the aid sent by the United States was less than $ 350 billion. According to the KIEL Institute for Global Economy, the United States sent about $ 120 billion as of December.

Claim: Zelenskyy said that he does not know where half the money gave the United States of Ukraine

In an interview with him on February 2 with Associated Press, Zelinski said that the Ukraine army had received only a portion of billions in US aid to defend Ukraine against Russia.

Zelenskyy cited a total of $ 177 billion, or 200 billion dollars spent by the United States and said that Ukraine had not received about $ 100 billion in this total. The official amount that the United States spends on Ukraine is $ 183 billion.

Zelenskyy did not say that the rest of the money was missing. The total direct military support for Ukraine was about 70 billion dollars. From $ 175 billion, which was allocated by Congress, many of which were spent in the United States on US military and governmental and governmental weapons manufacturers.

Claim: Zelinski was “asleep and unavailable” to meet Treasury Secretary Scott Beesen last week in Kiev

Pictures show that this is inaccurate. Trump told correspondents on Wednesday on the Air Force one that Pesin had been “somewhat rude” when Kiev visited on February 12 because Ukraine rejected the Trump administration’s proposal to give the United States a share of rare land minerals in Ukraine. Trump also said that Zelinski was “sleeping and unavailable” to meet Bessent.

Trump’s statement contrasts with news photos and videos of the Bessent meeting and Zelenskyy in Kyiv. The photos and a summary of the meeting are also on the Ukrainian President’s website.

On Thursday, US National Security Adviser Michael Waltz called for a return to Zelinski Negotiations on the metal deal With the United States. Zelenskyy has publicly rejected the demand for rare land. The Ukrainian leader requests security guarantees as part of any peace deal.