Zelensky's Washington visit branded a 'diplomatic failure' by Kremlin
Maria Zakharova assessed the meeting between Zelensky and Trump as a failure and discussed European leaders supporting Ukraine.
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The spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a leading Kremlin propagandist, Maria Zakharova, described Volodymyr Zelensky's visit to Washington as a "complete political and diplomatic failure of the Kyiv regime".
Zakharova discusses the Kremlin's goals
Zakharova claimed that the Ukrainian president is "obsessed" with prolonging the war and added that Moscow's goals remain unchanged—"demilitarization" of Ukraine and annexation of all territories currently occupied by Russia.
"With his outrageously rude behavior during his stay in Washington, Zelensky confirmed that he is the most dangerous threat," she argued.
She further stated that for Zelensky, it was "the unprecedented 'sobering scolding' in the history of international politics and diplomacy, delivered by the American president to Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House." She said the situation in the US is "evidence of the political weakness and extreme moral degradation of those European leaders who continue to advocate support for the deranged leader of the Nazi regime who has lost touch with reality."
Experts warn
American patriots should be concerned if Russia, which describes the US as its greatest adversary, is pleased with the actions of the President of the United States, warned Keir Giles, a British expert from the Chatham House think tank, in an interview with PAP.
"If Russian propagandists and officials, who see the US as their greatest adversary, are delighted with Donald Trump's actions, it should be a signal to American patriots that things are not heading in the right direction," Giles said.
According to the expert, Friday's quarrel in the Oval Office between the presidents of the USA and Ukraine, Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky, confirmed a shift in the balance of power that was initiated earlier by a phone call from Trump to Russian leader Vladimir Putin, offering the Kremlin terms for ending the war that Putin had anticipated.
