JAKARTA - The Kremlin offered support to Donald Trump in his dispute with Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Russia accuses the Ukrainian president of making "unacceptable" statements about world leaders.

Trump's return to the presidency has begun to warm up the near-dead US-Russian relations, which have fallen to their lowest point since the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 under Joe Biden's leadership due to Moscow's war in Ukraine.

In contrast, Kyiv's relationship with Washington, which is important for defense on the battlefield against Russia, is starting to crack under Trump's administration due to tensions surrounding the potential US deal to exploit Ukraine's natural resources and the US decision to hold two-way talks with Russia about Ukraine without Kyiv.

Zelenskyy on Wednesday accused Trump of living in a "disinformation bubble" after Trump called him "a dictator" and rejected Trump's false claims about his popularity rate of only 4%.

"Zelenskyy's rhetoric and many representatives of the Kyiv regime are not much expected. The fact that Zelenskiy's ranking is down is a very clear trend," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

Peskov said it did not want to go into detail on these figures when discussing Zelenskiy's popularity, which according to polls in Ukraine is above 50%.

"Often representatives of the Ukrainian regime, especially in recent months, have allowed themselves to say things that are truly unacceptable about the head of another country," Peskov said, without giving an example.

"We see certain differences between Washington and Kyiv," he continued.

The Kremlin accuses Ukraine of spending foreign taxpayers' money in uncontrollable ways and strongly rejects attempts to account for the funds spent in the past.

Trump's quick move to improve relations with Moscow, his dispute with Kyiv, and Vice President JD Vance's sharp criticism of Europe at the Munich Security Conference, has now left an old US ally dumbfounded and struggling to form a joint response.

Britain said it was willing to send troops to support Ukraine.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez plans to visit Kyiv on Monday to show his country's support for Zelenskiy and Ukraine's democracy.

Dmitry Medvedev, a former Russian president who is now deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, said he was surprised to see how quickly Trump's attitude towards Ukraine developed.

"'A Dictator without an election, Zelenskyy should move quickly or his country won't be left.' If you tell me three months ago that these are the words of the US president, I'll laugh out loud," Medvedev wrote on X in English.

"Trump 200 percent is true," Medvedev said.


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