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President Donald Trump drew a fierce wave of backlash after he suggested a U.S. ally fighting off an invasion should replace its leader.

Speaking to reporters on Saturday, Trump said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had "better d— well stop" striking oil refineries in Russia, arguing the attacks were affecting diesel and hurting American farmers. "I think it's time for Ukraine to get a new president," he said, per clips of the moment.

When a reporter pointed out that Ukrainians are suffering under Russian attacks, Trump doubled down. "I suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal," he said....

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tore into President Donald Trump over a newly struck agreement he warned will bankroll Russia's war against his country.

Zelenskyy told Axios in a phone interview Friday that Trump's move to let Russia sell its diesel on world markets was "not fair and not honest." He went further in a voice memo sent to reporters the same day, branding the deal a "weak decision" and accusing Trump of using Ukraine's negotiators "as a smokescreen," according to the Financial Times.

"You know, it looks like a happy birthday present for Putin," Zelenskyy told Axios, pointing to the Russian leader's birthday earlier this week. "It looks absolutely terrible."...

President Donald Trump made Russian President Vladimir Putin a very happy man last week, thanks to major U.S. concessions toward the war in Ukraine. For one, Trump told the Russian dictator by phone that there was no path forward for Ukraine to become a member of NATO, nor did he see Ukraine regaining any territory taken by force. Trump also said face-to-face negotiations to the end the war will begin immediately between Trump and Putin in Saudi Arabia, with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelinskyy nowhere in sight.

Financier and author Bill Browder told MSNBC's Jen Psaki Sunday, "I would say they're dancing the jig right now in the Kremlin. I mean...they've gone through absolute hell for the last three years."

"They were supposed to win this war in three days. They've lost 850,000 soldiers. They've spent hundreds of billions of dollars, and they didn't know when and how this was going to resolve itself. And then, all of a sudden, it looks like it's going to resolve itself in their favor. This is just like sort of a gift — a gift from the gods — to Vladimir Putin," Browder, once dubbed 'Putin's number oine enemy."...