Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson dismissed President Donald Trump’s strident remarks of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday, advising European politicians to focus on ending the war with Russia and not Trump’s social media posts.

“When are we Europeans going to stop being scandalised about Donald Trump and start helping him to end this war?” Johnson posted on X adding, “Trump’s statements are not intended to be historically accurate but to shock Europeans into action,” he added.

Earlier in the day, Trump posted a harsh critique of Zelenskyy where he described the former comedian as “A Dictator without Elections” and said he’d done “a terrible job” managing the country through a time of war. Trump had also told reporters that the Ukrainian president’s approval rating was “down to 4%.” Zelenskyy pushed back implying that Trump was getting his information from Russia saying, “If we are talking about 4% then we have seen this disinformation, we understand that it comes from Russia. And we have evidence,” adding, “With all due respect to President Donald Trump as a leader… he is living in this disinformation space.”

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