While Scholz didn’t call out the U.S. leader by name, there’s no doubt who he was slapping down when he said: “Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the elected head of the state of Ukraine. Starmer called Zelenskyy on Wednesday night, and according to a readout released by Downing Street told the Ukrainian president that he supports him “as Ukraine’s democratically elected leader and said that it was perfectly reasonable to suspend elections during war time as the U.K. did during World War II.” Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, who has clashed with Trump over his insistent warnings he could acquire the Danish territory of Greenland, said she didn’t understand the U.S. president’s “attack” on Zelenskyy, local media reported.
Author: Joe Stanley-Smith, Jack Detsch, Matt Honeycombe-Foster, Chris Lunday
Published at: 2025-02-19 23:48:10
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