Hello and welcome to NewsHour live from the BBC World Service in London.

I'm Rebecca Kesbby.

Relations between Kiev and Washington, D.C., which are already strained, were dealt another blow today

when US President Donald Trump took to social media to lambast. The Ukrainian president

Volodymy Zelensky in the harshest terms yet. In a long post on his own social media platform

truth social, Mr Trump accused Mr Zelensky of being a dictator without elections who'd done a terrible

job for Ukraine

and who just wanted to keep the gravy train of USA going.

Well, one of my colleagues has voiced up more of the frankly jaw-dropping post.

Have a listen to this.

Think of it.

A modestly successful comedian, Vladimir Zelensky, talked the United States of America

into spending $350 billion to go into a war that couldn't be won that never had to start,

but a war that he, without the US and Trump, will never be able to settle. The United States has spent $200 billion more than Europe,

and Europe's money is guaranteed, while the United States will get nothing back. Why didn't

Sleepy Joe Biden demand equalization in that this war is far more important to Europe than it is to

us? We have a big, beautiful ocean as separation.

On top of this, Zelensky admits that half of the money we sent him is missing. He refuses to

have elections, it's very low in Ukrainian polls, and the only thing he was good at was playing

Biden like a fiddle.

A dictator without elections, Zelensky better move fast or he is not going to have a country left.

Well, Mr Trump's post on social media came after comments he made at a press conference yesterday that were also disparaging of Mr Zelensky in which he said the Ukrainian president was unpopular at home with an approval rating he claimed was just at 4% and in which he even seemed to suggest that Ukraine had started the war.

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