Trump's startling and incorrect statements about Ukraine have sparked reactions around the world. Carl Bildt, board member of the think tank European Council of Foreign Relations and former Prime Minister, believes that the statements can be dangerous.

What he says is incorrect, it is distorted and it is dangerous, says Carl Bildt in Aktuellt.

That Ukraine started the war and that Zelenskyj is a dictator are two of U.S. President Donald Trump's statements in the last 24 hours.

We probably have to realize that we have a savage in the White House, he can say anything, says Bildt.

Carl Bildt believes that Trump's statements both create uncertainty about what is happening in American politics, but also international backlash against the United States, which he believes should not be in the country's interests.

Trump's statement comes from the Russian President

The statements have been likened to Russian propaganda and came shortly after the first meeting between Russia and the United States in Saudi Arabia. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Russian cronies have long accused Ukraine of being the driving force in the war and claimed that the administration in Kiev is Nazis.

Putin could not have said it better. I think they are rejoicing in the Kremlin over this, says Bildt.

Bildt believes that it is unlikely that the statements are based on information from the American security service, he instead believes that it is Russian propaganda directly from the Kremlin.

My thesis is that [President] Putin told him that, says Bildt.

European leaders gather

During the first three days of the week, two crisis meetings on the current situation in Ukraine and the threat from Russia have taken place with European leaders at the request of French President Emmanuel Macron.

During a press conference after the meeting, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said that Trump's statements are incorrect, but that people should be calm. Similar reactions have come from several other European leaders.

These are strong words from European leaders when they say that the American president is spreading untruths, says Carl Bildt and continues.

We are in a period that is transformative for the transatlantic relationship and then what Ulf Kristersson said applies, a little calm.

Christian Democrats party leader Ebba Busch, also Deputy Prime Minister, calls Trump's incorrect claim that Ukraine started the war against Russia "completely hair-raising".

Source: SVT (in Swedish)

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