{"id":1853,"date":"2025-02-21T08:32:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T03:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/musk-claims-ukrainians-despise-zelensky\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T08:32:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T03:02:56","slug":"musk-claims-ukrainians-despise-zelensky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/musk-claims-ukrainians-despise-zelensky\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk claims Ukrainians \u2018despise\u2019 Zelensky"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>The tech entrepreneur said Trump was right to hold talks with Russia without Kiev\u2019s approval<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">\n<\/p><p>The poll suggesting that Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky is popular at home has been rigged in his favor, billionaire Elon Musk, a major ally of US President Donald Trump, has claimed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt should be utterly obvious that a Zelensky-controlled poll about his OWN approval is not credible!!\u201d<\/em> Musk wrote on X on Thursday. He wrote his post in response to an unsourced claim on X that the US government had provided grants to the Kiev International Institute of Sociology (KIIS), which released a poll suggesting that 57% of Ukrainians have confidence in Zelensky.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf Zelensky was actually loved by the people of Ukraine, he would hold an election,\u201d<\/em> he added, claiming that Zelensky was <em>\u201cdespised by the people of Ukraine\u201d<\/em> and <em>\u201cwould lose in a landslide.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI challenge Zelensky to hold an election and refute this. He will not,\u201d<\/em> he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The owner of SpaceX, Tesla and X went on to argue that Trump was <em>\u201cright to ignore\u201d<\/em> Zelensky and should pursue a deal with Russia independently.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2025.02\/thumbnail\/67b760a12030270982222815.jpg\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, (center), NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, (right), and Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky (left).\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/613076-western-leaders-back-zelensky-trump-spat\/\">Western leaders back Zelensky amid war of words with Trump<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The public feud between Trump and Zelensky erupted earlier this\u00a0month after Ukrainian and EU officials said they were blindsided by Trump\u2019s decision to restore direct negotiations with Russia. Zelensky, who was not invited to the US-Russian talks in Riyadh on Tuesday, argued that the American president was <em>\u201cliving in Russian disinformation space.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump responded by labeling Zelensky, whose five-year presidential term expired last year, <em>\u201ca dictator\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and said that he had failed to achieve a ceasefire with Moscow. He also claimed that Zelensky\u2019s approval rating stood at 4%.<\/p>\n<p>According to KIIS, Zelensky\u2019s popularity surged to 90% during the initial months of the conflict in 2022 and has since fluctuated between 60% and 50%. Polls also consistently suggested that, in case of an election, Zelensky would lose to Ukraine\u2019s former top general, Valery Zaluzhny, who is now the ambassador to the UK.\u00a0<strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian officials have insisted that it was impossible to hold a new election under martial law. Russian President Vladimir has stated repeatedly that he no longer considers Zelensky a legitimate head of state. Trump also said recently that Ukraine should hold an election.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has insisted that Ukrainians \u201cdespise\u201d Vladimir Zelensky, despite what the local poll says Read Full Article at RT.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Musk claims Ukrainians \u2018despise\u2019 Zelensky - Leading the AI News Frontier<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/musk-claims-ukrainians-despise-zelensky\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Musk claims Ukrainians \u2018despise\u2019 Zelensky - 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