Donald Trump has accused Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of refusing to strike a deal to end the war with Russia and casting “aspersions” against him as he increased his attacks on Kyiv ahead of the US election.
Speaking at an event in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Wednesday, Trump launched one of his most scathing attacks of the Ukraine’s leader, who on Thursday is set to meet Joe Biden, the US president, and vice-president Kamala Harris — Trump’s Democratic rival for the White House.
“We continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refuses to make a deal: Zelenskyy,” Trump told the audience. “There was no deal that he could have made that wouldn’t have been better than the situation you have right now. You have a country that has been obliterated.”