United States President Donald Trump's National Security Adviser Mike Waltz said on Wednesday that the US president's relationship with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky is "frustrated" right now and "clearly going the wrong direction."
"Not everyone has gotten the message that the era of an endless grinding war, with death and destruction on all sides, costing hundreds of billions and costing hundreds of thousands, if not millions of lives, that era is over," Waltz said in an interview on Fox News, and condemned what he called "bizarre rhetoric" coming from Ukraine. "We had this kind of escalating rhetoric and pushback, and the president's not going to tolerate it," he added.
Trump previously called Zelensky a "dictator without elections" and criticized him for "half" of the money the US sent to Ukraine "MISSING," noting that the Ukrainian president is "very low on Ukrainian polls."
