Selenskyj accuses JD Vance to be victims of Russian disinformation and spread Moscow narrative – with dangerous consequences for the West.
Kyiv-At the end of February, the scenes went from the dispute in the White House between US President Donald Trumphis Vice JD Vance and the Ukrainian president Wolodymyr Selenskyj Around the world. The tensions between Washington and Kiev are ongoing – this is also shown by Selenskyj’s recent criticism of the United States. However, praise for the US government came from Moscow.
Ukraine War: Selenskyj criticizes Vance, US vice is accused of “absurd”
Selenskyj commented on the US television program “60 minutes“The transmitter CBS News Last Sunday (April 13) as critical than ever since the scandal in the White House about the US government. “Unfortunately, I believe that there are Russian narratives in the United States,” said the Ukrainian president. How else is it possible to see the losses and still believe that Russia is not the aggressor, his reasoning continues. This shows “the enormous influence of Russian information policy on America, US politics and US politicians.”
He tried to explain that in Ukraine war could not search in the middle. “There is an attacker and a victim. The Russians are the attacker, and we are the victim,” emphasized Selenskyj and added: “It seems to me that the Vice President somehow justifies Putin’s action.” JD Vance promptly reacted to the accusation: “I find it a little absurd that Selenskyj of the (US) government, which is currently holding its entire government and war efforts together, says that we are somehow on the side of the Russians,” quotes the news agency Reuters the US vice.
Such rhetoric is not productive, it said from Vance. He had convicted Russia since 2022, but has tried to understand the strategic goals of both sides to find a solution. “This does not mean that the Russian thing is morally supported or the invasion of the invasion in full, but you have to try to understand what their strategic red lines are, just as you have to try to understand what the Ukrainians want to get out of the conflict,” said Vance, the Selenskyj at the meeting in the White House had accused ungratefulness and disrespect.
Moscow praises the US government: “Obviously understanding in Trump administration”
However, the Kremlin praised the US government. The Russian foreign minister and tightness Putin familiar Sergei Lawrow said in an interview with the newspaper CommersantWashington has the “sincere” desire for normal relationships with Moscow and the white house try to tackle the “basic causes” of the Ukraine war. There is “no alternative to the beginning of a special military operation,” continued the Russian Foreign Minister and added: “And this understanding is also obvious in the Trump administration.”
The US specialist Steve Witkoff had been negotiating for hours with Putin about the end of the Ukraine War for hours. An agreement crystallizes, Witkoff then said. Despite the talks about an armistice, the fighting in Ukraine continues unabated. On Sunday, the Russian army attacked the city of Sumy near the border with two ballistic rockets. According to Ukrainian information, at least 35 people were killed, over 100 people suffered injuries. It was one of the most lost attacks in Russian attack war on Ukraine for over three years.
