Vice President J.D. Vance, who met Volodymyr Zelenskyy last week at the Munich Security Conference, said Wednesday that Ukraine’s leader is making a mistake by criticizing President Donald Trump, who is seeking a rapid end to the nearly three-year-old war with Russia.

Trump and Zelenskyy traded barbs Wednesday, with Trump calling out Ukraine’s president on Truth Social for not holding elections, saying “the only thing he was good at was playing [Joe] Biden ‘like a fiddle,'” and calling him a “Dictator without elections.” Trump also on Tuesday told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida that Ukraine “should have never started” the war, which will mark its third anniversary on Monday, and “could have made a deal” to end it.

Zelenskyy, who was frustrated that the U.S. started peace talks with Russia first, responded Wednesday that Trump was living in a Russian-made “disinformation space.” His comments came shortly before he was to meet in Kyiv with retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine and Russia.

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