Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said on Friday that former US President Donald Trump showed “restraint” by not striking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during their heated exchange in the White House.
“I think Zelensky’s biggest lie of all his lies was his assertion in the White House that the Kyiv regime in 2022 was alone, without support,” Zakharova wrote on Telegram. “How Trump and Vance held back from hitting that sc^mbag is a miracle of restraint,” she added.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, also attacked Zelensky, calling him an “insolent p!g” who had received “a proper slap down in the Oval Office.”
Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, described the confrontation between Trump and Zelensky as “historic.” Dmitriev, who was among Moscow’s negotiators in the Russian-American talks in Saudi Arabia on February 18—the first since Russia launched its Ukraine offensive in 2022—highlighted the significance of the clash.
