Sam Kiley: Delusional of Trump to say Ukraine led by authoritarian regimeBBC Newsnight
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00:00Well, it's quite startling, isn't it, to hear a US president essentially undermine the status
00:07of a fellow president in a democracy.
00:09It is true that Ukraine is under martial law.
00:12It's under martial law because it got invaded by Russia.
00:15It is true that it's been a year since Zelensky would have been due to face elections had
00:21his country not been invaded.
00:23I've no idea about those lunatic opinion polls that he quotes.
00:27The scale of the destruction in places like Mariupol is total.
00:32In a great deal of the rest of the country, it is certainly not 20% in the city.
00:36So it's delusional, but it is singing directly from the Kremlin song sheet.
00:42Sergei Lavrov, when he arrived in Saudi Arabia this morning, his new line coming out of the
00:48Russian delegation is to cast doubt on the legitimacy of President Zelensky.
00:53And then, boom, we hear straight from the mouth of the American president exactly the
00:58same thing.
00:59They are singing the same song as the Kremlin.