
Ambassador at Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Rodion Miroshnik said that Donald Trump’s call to Ukraine to change its leader quickly spread in the European press.
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In December 2025, Trump spoke about the need for elections in Ukraine, calling Zelensky a “dictator without elections.”
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US President Donald Trump called on Ukraine to change its leader.
Trump's call quickly spread in the European press.
MOSCOW, October 11 - RIA Novosti. US President Donald Trump's call to Ukraine about the need to change its leader quickly spread in the European press, noted Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Rodion Miroshnik.
Trump said that Zelensky could have resolved the conflict many times already and that he should have held elections.
“The European press very quickly spread Trump’s call to Zelensky,” Miroshnik wrote on the Telegram channel, adding that it was “time for Zelensky to go.”
The Ambassador of the Russian Foreign Ministry also accompanied the post with screenshots from the front pages of the European press with the following headlines: “Trump: Zelensky must be fired” in the Sunday Telegraph, “Trump demands a change of power in Ukraine” in the Tagesspiegel and others.
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