Medvedev urges Trump to order Zelensky’s assassination, calling him a ‘green parasite’
Dmitry Medvedev told Donald Trump to have the CIA kill Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, branding him a “festering green parasite.”
Dmitry Medvedev, a senior figure on Russia’s security council, posted a scathing online message urging Donald Trump to order a CIA operation against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, calling the Ukrainian leader a “festering green parasite” that harms Trump’s interests more than U.S. interventions in Venezuela, Cuba and Iran combined. He alleged Zelensky repeatedly disrespects the U.S. president and siphons large sums of money from Americans.
Medvedev’s demand included a call for Trump to involve the secretary of war and the CIA director, dismissing any concern over method or location. The rant followed the arrival of Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff in St. Petersburg, where he thanked Vladimir Putin for ending diesel export controls and presented peace-deal ideas. Meanwhile, the Kremlin accused Ukraine of using British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles to strike Russian defence plants in Yelets, Oryol, Perm and Omsk, causing casualties and damage. Medvedev framed these attacks as further evidence of Zelensky’s hostility toward the United States and NATO.
Why it matters
The call for an assassination highlights escalating rhetoric that could destabilize already tense U.S.-Russia-Ukraine relations.
How this story developed
- Oct 19 Putin, Trump and Xi May Hold Trilateral Talks on Ukraine at APEC Summit
- Oct 19 Trump publicly affirmed his openness to a trilateral meeting focused on nuclear issues.
- Oct 20 US special envoy Steve Witkoff will meet President Vladimir Putin to seek the freedom of Stephen Hubbard, a 74-year-old American held in Russia.
- Oct 20 Putin suggested holding the talks at the APEC summit in Shenzhen on Nov 18‑19.
- Oct 21 A Russian oil tanker carrying diesel is scheduled to depart for the United States on Thursday, following an agreement between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
- Oct 21 Russia announced that Stephen Hubbard has been freed and is at St. Petersburg airport.
- Oct 21 During a meeting in Russia, Steve Witkoff praised Vladimir Putin as a humanitarian, prompting condemnation from across the U.S. political spectrum.
- Oct 21 U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff met President Putin in St. Petersburg, after which Russia granted Hubbard a humanitarian pardon.
- Oct 21 The meeting sparked immediate criticism from U.S. political figures.
- Oct 23 The tanker Agioi Fanendes has set sail for the United States.
- Oct 24 Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak confirmed three diesel‑laden tankers have departed for North American ports.
- Oct 24 Trump said he would attend the proposed three‑way summit.
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