
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he was counting on Ukrainian and European unity and U.S. pragmatism as Kyiv faces a mounting crisis in relations with its hitherto key U.S. ally under the leadership of President Donald Trump.
In an extraordinary rift, Trump said on Wednesday that Zelenskiy was a “dictator without elections” who should act quickly or lose his country, unthinkable rhetoric from a U.S. leader for most of Russia’s