Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks as he and U.S. President Donald Trump hold a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York City, New York, U.S., September 25, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Reuters: For Ukraine's leader, Trump memo on their call is a diplomatic car crash
KIEV/MOSCOW (Reuters) - For U.S. President Donald Trump, White House publication on Wednesday of a memo summarizing his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy fueled a domestic political crisis.
For Zelenskiy, it was a far-reaching diplomatic disaster.
Zelenskiy’s comments to the Republican Trump, disclosed in the summary, will likely irk U.S. Democrats, risking the bipartisan U.S. support Kiev requires while irritating France and Germany whom Zelenskiy criticized in the same exchange.
Locked in a geopolitical standoff with neighboring Russia after Moscow annexed the Crimea region and backed pro-Russian separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine in 2014, Ukraine needs all the international friends it can get.
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WNU Editor: Ukrainian President Zelenskiy had nothing but praise for President Trump in their phone call, and even admitted/thanked President Trump that he used his 2016 Presidential election strategy to win the Ukrainian Presidency and parliamentary elections. Even using President Trump's favourite slogan of "draining the swamp". The problem is that the Ukrainians never thought this conversation would be made public, and now they are genuinely worried that there will be blow-back from leading U.S. Democrats when it comes to Ukraine. I am also worried. The Democrats are now going to do whatever is necessary to kick President Trump out of the White House, including discrediting his allies like Ukrainian President Zelenskiy. These are dark times in Washington.
