Trump's remarks came just hours after Zelensky hit back against his suggestion that Ukraine was to blame for Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, the Reuters news agency reported.
In a media interview earlier on Wednesday, Zelensky said Trump was caught in a Russian disinformation bubble.
In response, Trump took to social media, claiming that Zelensky was "a dictator without elections" and warning him to "move fast" or risk having "no country left."
He also mocked Zelensky as "a modestly successful comedian" and accused him of talking the United States into spending USD 350 billion "to go into a war that couldn’t be won, that never had to start, but a war that he, without the U.S. and Trump, will never be able to settle."
The Ukrainian leader dismissed Trump's claim that his approval rating was just 4 percent, calling it Russian disinformation and insisting that any attempt to remove him from power would fail.
"We have evidence that these figures are being discussed between America and Russia. That is, President Trump ... unfortunately lives in this disinformation space," Zelensky told Ukrainian TV, as quoted by Reuters.
The latest poll from the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, conducted in early February, says 57 percent of Ukrainians trust Zelensky, according to Reuters.
Zelensky’s five-year term as president of Ukraine was set to end in 2024, but due to martial law—imposed in February 2022 in response to Russia’s invasion—presidential and parliamentary elections cannot be held.
'Nobody can force Ukraine to give up': FM
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said in an X post on Wednesday that his country "withstood the most horrific military attack in Europe’s modern history and three years of a total war."
He added that the Ukrainian people and their president "refused to give in to Putin’s pressure."
"Nobody can force Ukraine to give up," Sybiha wrote. "We will defend our right to exist."
Trump envoy visits Kyiv
Meanwhile, Trump's envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, arrived in Kyiv on Wednesday.
He held talks with officials including presidential aide Andriy Yermak, according to reports.
Zelensky said he would meet with Kellogg on Thursday.
Speaking to reporters in Florida on Tuesday, Trump blamed Ukraine's authorities for the war and suggested they "could have made a deal" with Russia earlier.
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Source: IAR, PAP, Reuters