Zelensky says Trump is living in a Russian ‘disinformation space’
Newshour
BBC
4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
President Volodymyr Zelensky has hit back at US President Donald Trump's suggestion that Ukraine started the war and that his popularity ratings are low. In forthright comments from a former close US ally, Mr Zelensky said Mr Trump was trapped in a disinformation bubble created by Russia. It comes as he is due to have talks with US envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg. We get the reaction of a Ukrainian MP and hear from the city of Odesa.
Also in the programme: Hamas says it’s willing to release all remaining hostages in one go in exchange for a full withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza; and the discovery of the first ancient Egyptian pharaoh’s tomb in more than a century.
(Picture: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky gives a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine on February 19, 2025. Credit: Tetiana Dzhafarova/Pool via REUTERS)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:07.0 | My name is Celia Hattin, and I'm speaking to you live from our studio in central London. |
| 0:12.6 | Today, a day of big reactions inside Ukraine. |
| 0:16.1 | Keeves' response to how the whole conflict is viewed by Donald Trump and the way in which he's described |
| 0:23.9 | how it all began. The U.S. President could not make it clearer in the fight between the invader, |
| 0:30.6 | the Russians, and the defenders, the Ukrainians, he's not even neutral. He believes the Ukrainians |
| 0:36.6 | started the war. Here he is speaking to reporters |
| 0:39.4 | last night. I want a sea peace. Look, you know why I want? Because I don't want all these people |
| 0:45.3 | killed anymore. I'm looking at people that are being killed. And they're Russian and Ukrainian people, |
| 0:51.1 | but they're people. It doesn't matter where they're from on the whole planet. |
| 0:55.8 | And I think I have the power to end this war. |
| 0:58.5 | And I think it's going very well. |
| 1:00.5 | But today I heard, oh, well, we weren't invited. |
| 1:02.4 | Well, you've been there for three years. |
| 1:03.8 | You should have ended it three years. |
| 1:05.5 | You should have never started it. |
| 1:06.7 | You could have made a deal. |
| 1:08.1 | I could have made a deal for Ukraine that would have given them almost |
| 1:12.1 | all of the land, everything, almost all of the land, and no people would have been killed and no city |
| 1:17.7 | would have been demolished and not one dome would have been knocked down. President Zelensky |
| 1:22.3 | responded saying the U.S. was being misinformed. We are seeing a lot of disinformation, |
| 1:28.4 | and it's coming from Russia. |
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