Johannesburg:
The European Union’s top diplomat said on Thursday that he initially thought that US President Donald Trump confuses Volodimier Zelansky with Vladimir Putin when he called the Ukrainian leader a “dictator”.
“When I heard this, I was so, oh, he would have to merge both, because clearly Putin is the dictator,” Kaja Kalas told reporters in Johannesburg.
In a post on his true social stage on Wednesday, Trump wrote that Zelancesi was “dictator without elections”.
Zelansky’s five -year term ended last year but the Ukrainian law does not require elections during the war time.
“Zelanski is an elected leader in a fair and free elections,” Kalas said in a briefing after attending the G20 Foreign Ministers’ meeting.
He said that the formation of many countries allows suspend elections during war-time to focus on conflicts.
The European Union’s foreign policy head said that Russia, who attacked Ukraine in 2022, may make free choices, but “they are afraid of detailed democracy, because in democracy, leaders are held accountable.”
“This is truly from the handbook of the dictator.”
Trump opens a direct conversation with Moscow on ending the war and has implicated Ukraine and its European backcuts, but except Kiev and European countries.
Kalas said that meditation should be on supporting Ukraine and political and economic pressure on Russia.
Ukraine “is on the battlefield, they are as strong as they are behind the table of talks,” she said, “Russia doesn’t really want peace.”
Kalas said that it was also prematurely to talk about sending soldiers to protect Ukraine after a deal of any ceasefire with Russia.
Instead, Ukraine was guaranteed to guarantee concrete safety that Russia would not attack again, said, that history showed that the ceasefire had opportunities only for Russia to “re -organized and resume. “
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