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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Mansur Mirovalev

Reality of war clashes with Trump’s demand for Ukraine vote, analysts say

Ukrainian servicemen fire an MRLS BM-21 'Grad' rocket launcher towards Russian army positions near Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region on February 15, 2025 [Handout/Oleg Petrasiuk/Ukraine's 24th Mechanised Brigade via AP]

Kyiv, Ukraine – Echoing the Kremlin, United States President Donald Trump is demanding that national elections be held in Ukraine as part of any peace deal while referring to the Ukrainian president as a “dictator”.

“That’s not a Russia thing. That’s something coming from me and coming from many other countries also,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday while falsely saying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has a 4 percent approval rating.

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