Remarks follow Ukrainian leader’s claim US president living in a Russian ‘disinformation bubble’

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Donald Trump has called Volodymyr Zelenskyy a dictator and warned that he “better move fast” or he “won’t have a country left”, after the Ukrainian president accused the US leader of being “trapped” in a Russian “disinformation bubble”.

The escalating war of words on Wednesday represents the deepest rift between Kyiv and its most powerful ally since Russia’s full-scale invasion nearly three years ago.