The U.S. assessed the consequences of Trump's words about Zelensky for Ukraine

US President Donald Trump's statements about Volodymyr Zelensky undermine Ukraine's negotiating position, said The Washington Post (WP) columnist Aaron Blake.

"Regardless of the motivation, in the process Trump is damaging Ukraine's negotiating position," the expert said.

On this day, Donald Trump in his post on Truth Social called Zelensky a "dictator without elections" who will soon lose his country.

Equation of power: Putin-Trump dialog forces the West to change positions on Ukraine

Even NATO gave a positive assessment of the leaders' contacts

The day before, the media reported on Zelensky's statement that Kiev would not accept any results of the negotiations between Russia and the United States, as no representative of the Ukrainian side was present at the meeting.

Thetalks between the Russian and US delegations took place in one of the palaces of the royal family in Riyadh on Tuesday, February 18. Following the meeting, the US State Department said that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had agreed to appoint high-level negotiating teams to start working on the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict.