The US have backed a 28-point peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, but Kyiv's allies haven't fully supported it.
14:36, Sun, Nov 23, 2025 Updated: 15:04, Sun, Nov 23, 2025
Donald Trump has criticised Ukrainian leaders (Image: Getty)
Donald Trump has lashed out at Ukraine's leaders as a US-backed peace plan is failing to gain traction in Kyiv and among Volodymyr Zelensky's European allies.
Taking to his Truth Social media platform, the US President launched a scathing attack on the Ukrainian leadership, saying that the country has “expressed zero gratitude” for the US’s efforts, while also slamming Europeans for the use of Russian oil and gas.
He posted: "Ukraine's leadership has expressed zero gratitude for our efforts, and Europe continues to buy oil from Russia.”
He then launched a tirade of attacks on former President Joe Biden - blaming his and Zelenskyy’s leadership for the Russia-Ukraine conflict while making claims that if he were in power after the 2020 election, the war would have never begun.
Trump has blamed the conflict on Biden and Zelenskyy's leadership (Image: Getty)
He added: "It [the war] began long before I took office for a Second Term, during the Sleepy Joe Biden Administration, and has only gotten worse.
“If the 2020 Presidential Election was not rigged and stolen, the only thing the Radical Left Democrats are good at doing, there would be no Ukraine/Russia War, as there wasn’t, not even a mention, during my first Term in Office.”
His latest fury at Zelenskyy eerily echoes the explosive White House meeting in February when Trump and Vance repeatedly criticised the Ukrainian, at times drowning out his voice and even calling him a “dictator" - something he later retracted.
This latest barrage comes at a particularly pivotal time during the conflict with top US officials currently in Geneva holding talks with Ukrainian diplomats as the deadline to accept Trump’s 28-point peace plan lies just four days away.
US and Ukrainian officials are in the midst of talks in Geneva on the US peace plan (Image: Getty)
Trump's post came just minutes after Zelenskyy suggested that the US peace plan may include elements not in his country’s national interest.
Posting on X just before 2pm GMT, the Ukrainian president wrote: “Currently, there is an understanding that the American proposals may include a number of elements based on Ukrainian perspectives and critical for Ukrainian national interests.
“Further work is ongoing to make all elements truly effective in achieving the main goal anticipated by our people: to finally put an end to the bloodshed and war.”
Some of the main sticking points for Ukraine include Kyiv ceding a significant amount of territory to Russia, recognition of Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk as "de facto Russian” territory, including by the United States and limits to the size of Ukraine’s military.
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