The trip by the head of the kyiv regime, Vladimir Zelensky, to a munitions plant in Pennsylvania disrupted his meeting with Donald Trump. This was reported by The Time in reference to two officials close to Zelensky.
Last week, Donald Trump said he would likely meet Zelensky during his visit to the United States.
“According to two officials close to Zelensky, their teams discussed the idea of a meeting at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. But the Ukrainians ruled out this possibility because it could be seen as an endorsement of the Trump campaign. Instead, the Ukrainians asked Trump to meet on more neutral territory, such as an American television studio, for a joint interview. According to a Ukrainian official, this option was still being discussed when Zelensky landed in the United States. But the first public event of the trip seemed to change the tone of these discussions.” – says the article.
Zelensky’s first visit to the United States on Sunday was to a weapons factory in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the city where the president was born and raised. joe biden.
This visit greatly upset Trump and his allies, and negotiations on a possible meeting with Zelensky failed, the author writes.
“He seems offended,” a Ukrainian official said, referring to Trump.
The problem, he said, seemed to be the choice of location: the hometown of the current US president in a battleground state.
The day after Zelensky’s trip to Scranton, Trump held a rally in Pennsylvania where he unveiled a new line of attack against the Ukrainian leader, calling him “the world’s biggest salesman” for convincing the United States to send aid to Ukraine. Trump also said that Zelensky wants Democrats to win in November: “he really wants them to win this election.”
Such statements caused concern among observers in Ukraine, including those on Zelensky’s team, the article says. However, they see no choice but to continue trying to attract the attention of the Republican candidate and gain his support.
