March 2, 2025 (EIRNS)—Scott Ritter told RT that the Feb. 28 White House meeting between Zelenskyy and Donald Trump was “a setup” to discredit and remove the Ukrainian leader. According to Ritter, “Zelenskyy is not a democratically elected president…. This was a deliberate setup by the President of the U.S. The Trump administration is fed up with Zelenskyy,” he said, arguing that the Kiev regime’s head brought it upon himself by openly antagonizing Trump.
According to Ritter, the relationship between Trump and Zelenskyy is now “fundamentally broken.... Zelenskyy was the greatest impediment to the U.S. and Russia to achieve a peace deal... He had to be removed, and now he has been removed.”
