« on: February 21, 2025, 05:08:02 am »
This deserves a thread of it's own...the Ukrainians ain't going to give away their country to either Trump or Putin:
Ukraine rallies around Zelenskyy after Trump’s vicious attackhttps://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-volodymyr-zelenskyy-president-ukraine-russia-war-white-house/After American President Donald Trump attacked Kyiv’s leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy, calling him incompetent and a “dictator without elections” who had duped the U.S. into coughing up billions of dollars in military support, Ukrainian politicians, officials and soldiers leaped to their president’s defense.
“Ukraine is a sovereign state! Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the President of Ukraine. Legitimate until another is elected. Only Ukrainians can decide when and under what conditions they should change their government. Today, there are no such conditions,” said Yulia Tymoshenko, former prime minister of Ukraine and leader of the mildly oppositional Motherland faction in the Ukrainian parliament, in a statement Wednesday.
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While MP Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze did not immediately defend Zelenskyy, the senior figure in Ukraine’s European Solidarity party — whose leader Petro Poroshenko was recently sanctioned by Zelenskyy — described Trump’s remarks as “unacceptable.” She is pushing for the president to form a unity government and to involve all political parties in the negotiation process.
“Yes, we heard completely unacceptable statements by the U.S. leader about who started the war; about resolving the “conflict in Ukraine” by completely satisfying Putin’s “wishes”; about de facto potentially forcing Ukraine to surrender everything we have been fighting for for 11 years against aggressive dictatorial Russia,” Klympush-Tsintsadze said.
She said Zelenskyy must now “bury the axe of war with [the] opposition … and unite the country.”
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“We may like Zelenskyy, or we may not, we may scold him, or we may praise him, we may condemn his actions, or we may applaud them … because he is OUR President,” Borys Filatov, mayor of the industrial city of Dnipro, wrote in a social media post.
“No lying creature, neither in Moscow, nor in Washington, nor anywhere, has the right to open his mouth against him,” Filatov added.
Donetsk Governor Vadym Filashkin — whose region is on the front line facing relentless Russian attacks — said the people of Ukraine have entrusted Zelenskyy with leading the country as it fights a nuclear power.
“In such a difficult time, we, the Ukrainian people, must stand by our leader, who makes no concessions. Just like all of us,” Filashkin said in a statement.
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