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The Kremlin has said western unity over Ukraine is falling apart after an extraordinary spat in the White House between the US and Ukraine threatened to derail support for Kyiv against Russia’s invasion.
Dmitry Peskov, President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, said the spat between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy showed Ukraine’s leader “doesn’t want peace, he wants the war to continue”, according to Interfax.
“The collective west has partially ceased to be collective, and the fragmentation of the collective west has begun,” Peskov told reporters, referring to European countries scrambling to find ways to support Ukraine after the Oval Office argument last Friday.
Peskov said another country would have to convince the US to smooth over the fallout from the spat and “make Zelenskyy himself change his position”.
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