Trump: Zelensky is a dictator

Donald Trump has launched a scathing attack on Volodymyr Zelensky, labelling him a “dictator” for not holding elections.

The US president said in a post on his Truth Social that the Ukrainian president had done a “terrible job” and said he needed to “move fast or he is not going to have a country left”.

“I love Ukraine, but Zelenskyy has done a terrible job, his Country is shattered, and MILLIONS have unnecessarily died – And so it continues…” Mr Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

He also accused Mr Zelensky of “playing Biden ‘like a fiddle’” and suggested he wants to “keep the gravy train going”, referring to the billions of dollars in aid donated to Kyiv by Washington.