President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky again stressed that he will not allow dragging Ukraine into domestic political processes in the United States and to lose support both of two leading parties, as well as Administration of the U.S. President.
“When I became a president, we had a lot of questions from Ukraine to some states, and vice versa. But I immediately said that Ukraine will never be dragged into the domestic policy of any country and to influence it, regardless of population and remoteness. I don’t know how it looked like before me. Indeed, there were problems in the relations between Ukraine and the United States, but now we have bicameral support for Ukraine from the United States, sanctions are being imposed, there is support from two parties and personally from U.S. President Donald Trump,” he said in an interview with The Globe and Mail Canadian ezine.
According to the interview posted on the official website of Ukrainian head of state on June 22, Zelensky said he did not want to disrupt such relations with one of the strategic partners of Ukraine – “a very influential country, with an influential geopolitical position.”
“I’ve talked about this with President of the United States (Donald Trump), and with Mike Pompeo (U.S. Secretary of State), and with many representatives of the Senate, both U.S. parties. They understand that all these cases that are now being considered when they want to drag Ukraine into these matters, this all was also in times of the former president,” he said.
According to Zelensky, he knows that American politicians treated Ukraine as a “scandalous” country, and he does not like it because “we have another country.”
“I will not admit that someone created the image of Ukraine as a scandalous country and I will not allow our country to be involved in the electoral and any other political process in the United States,” he said.
