Breaking News: Kremlin says Trump’s hostility towards Zelenskyy is ‘understandable….See More

The Kremlin said Sunday that Donald Trump’s hostility towards Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was “understandable,” weighing into the bitter war of words that has erupted between Washington and Kyiv over the last week.

“Zelenskyy makes inappropriate remarks addressed to the head of state. He does it repeatedly,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told state TV. “No president would tolerate that kind of treatment. So his (Trump’s) reaction is completely quite understandable.”

Peskov also described dialogue between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin as “promising,” days after top officials from Moscow and Washington met in Riyadh to discuss improving fractured relations and how to end the three-year Ukraine conflict.

This is a dialogue between two extraordinary presidents. That’s promising,” he said.