On Tuesday, February 18, the US president Donald Trump talked about the negotiations with Russia about Ukraine in a press conference from his residence at Mar-a-Lago, Florida. Many of his claims have been proven false by fact-checking articles from major publications such as BBC and CNN. Many politicians, European as well as American, underlined many falsehoods in his words. The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said that Trump is «living in a disinformation space» created by Russia. Trump reacted the following day with a post on his social network, Truth Social, where he reiterated some of the lies he spread the day before and added a new one, accusing Zelensky of being an unelected dictator.

Let’s take a look at some of Trump’s false claims, starting from the most recent one.

Zelensky is not an unelected dictator

«A Dictator without Elections»

This claim is unfounded.

Volodymyr Zelensky was elected president of Ukraine through democratic elections held in March-April 2019. It was not possible to hold elections when his mandate should have expired, in 2024, because of the war that Russia is waging against Ukraine and the subsequent martial law declared in Ukraine.

It is also not unprecedented for a country at war to suspend the elections until the war itself has ended. The United Kingdom during the Second World War did not have elections until 1945. In Finland, during the Winter War and the Second World War, no elections were held between 1939 and 1945. Similarly,...

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