Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says he can’t predict Trump’s actions if elected

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday he could not predict what Donald Trump would do if elected to a second time as US president in November, adding he did not know Trump well but hoped America’s support to Kyiv would not change.

“I don’t know very well him. I don’t know. I had meetings with him and we had good meetings when he was the president… but we didn’t (go) through the war with him,” Zelenskyy said, speaking in English without a translator, during an event at the Ronald Reagan Institute in Washington, DC.

“I can’t tell you what he will do, if he will be the president of the United States. I don’t know.”

Zelenskyy urged US political leaders in Washington not to wait for the outcome of America’s November presidential election to move forcefully to aid his country against Russia’s invasion.

“Everyone is waiting for November. Americans are waiting for November, in Europe, Middle East, in the Pacific, the whole world is looking towards November and, truly speaking, (Russian President Vladimir) Putin awaits November too,” Zelenskyy said.

“It is time to step out of the shadows, to make strong decisions … to act and not to wait for November or any other month.”