Musk, the Tesla billionaire and close Trump adviser, railed against Zelensky in a rant on his social media platform X, describing him as a “disgusting, massive graft machine feeding off the dead bodies of Ukrainian soldiers”.
He continued: “If Zelensky was actually loved by the people of Ukraine, he would hold an election. He knows he would lose in a landslide, despite having seized control of ALL Ukrainian media, so he cancelled the election.”
The poll conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology found that Zelensky’s approval rating stood at 57 per cent, up from 52 per cent in December.
There is little domestic appetite for an election, with most opposition parties in agreement that an election cannot be held during wartime.
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Read MoreMusk’s outburst comes at a time of escalating crisis in relations between Trump and Zelensky, which culminated in the US President branding him a “dictator” on Wednesday and falsely claiming that Ukraine started the war with Russia.
Fears that the rift between Ukraine and the US was widening increased further yesterday with the cancellation of a joint press conference between Zelensky and Trump’s special envoy.
Nikiforov gave no other reason other than that the cancellation was in accordance with US wishes. The US delegation made no immediate comment.
Before the meeting, photographers and video journalists were allowed into a room where the two men shook hands before sitting across from each other at a table at the presidential office in Kyiv.
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