EU top diplomat says ‘free world needs new leader’ after Trump-Zelensky clash

BRUSSELS: The European Union’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas vowed to stand by Kyiv and questioned America’s leadership of the West Friday after an extraordinary clash between President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky.

“Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge,” Kallas wrote on social media following the Oval Office confrontation. “Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine.”