German Chancellor Olaf Sholaz said on Wednesday that this was the “wrong and dangerous” by US President Donald Trump to call Ukrainian leader Volodimir Zelanski a “dictator”.
“It is true that Volodimir Zelancesi is the elected head of the Ukraine state,” Scools told the Speigel News Site.
Earlier on Wednesday, Trump called Zelansky “a dictator without elections”.
Zelansky’s five -year term ended last year but the Ukrainian law does not need elections during the war.
Scools condemned any attempt to deny “President Zalensky Democratic Validity”.
“The fact is that there may not be proper choices in the middle of the war, the Ukrainian is reflected in the Constitution and the Election Law,” he said.
External Affairs Minister Analena Berbock also hit back on Trump’s comments, branded him “absurd”.
“If you look at the real world instead of firing a tweet, you know who to live in the terms of a dictatorship in Europe: People in Russia, people in Belarus,” Berbock told Burdcaster ZDF.
Earlier, Berlin also pushed back against Trump’s claim that Kiev started the fight.
Berbock said in a statement, “Nobody, but Putin started this war in the heart of Europe,” saying that “we are working with all of them to further strengthen Ukraine.” “.
He said “We are an existential manner for security and peace in Europe” and this goal was to achieve permanent peace for Ukraine – safe and safe from future Russian aggression “.
Berbock said that no one will give a relief to Russia only for new military campaigns “.
Trump said about the rapid growing events since talking about ending the conflict with Putin directly, he said “we should not allow ourselves to be confused” and “Keep a cool head” .
He said that Russia’s “play only in hands”, reducing the role of Europe on Ukraine, said.
“So I advocate to act confidently towards the US administration.”
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