“Without a meeting with the US president, all political players in Ukraine will perceive Mr. Zelensky’s presidency as inferior,” he said on the 112 Ukraine television channel.

According to the deputy, Trump is "the biggest boss."

At the same time, he believes that for Zelensky, as well as for the former president of the country Petro Poroshenko, “the very fact of meeting with Trump is already a stylization of power.”

Earlier, trump called Zelensky a reasonable guy and said that he was waiting for his visit to Washington.