U.S. President Donald Trump said Ukraine needs a new president, responding to criticism from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over a diesel-related arrangement, 연합뉴스TV reported on Saturday.
According to the broadcaster, Trump's remark came after Zelensky spoke out against the deal. Yonhap News carried the same headline, reporting Trump's call for new Ukrainian leadership.
Separate reporting cited by the source summary adds further context. 한겨레 reported that Trump moved ahead with a diesel transaction with Russian President Vladimir Putin after Zelensky's requests to halt attacks were ignored six times. MBC 뉴스 reported that the European Union criticized the arrangement, saying that pausing sanctions amounts to providing funds for the war.
YTN framed the episode as another example of what it described as the unvarnished side of Trump's foreign policy, characterizing his approach as taking what is sweet and spitting out what is bitter.
The reports, aggregated from Korean outlets, center on the same core claim: Trump's public call for a change of leadership in Kyiv, made in direct response to Zelensky's objections to the diesel deal. The source material does not include the full text of either leader's remarks, and no direct quotations from Trump or Zelensky were available in the summary.
What to watch next: whether the White House or the Ukrainian government issues an official response, and whether the EU follows its criticism with concrete action on sanctions.
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