Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's political opponents rebuked him on Thursday over what they said was his amateurish handling of a phone call with U.S. President
Donald Trump, accusing him of damaging important international alliances.
Zelenskiy, a former comedian and political novice who was only elected in April, was blindsided on Wednesday when the
White House released a memo summarizing his July 25 call with Trump during which the U.S. leader asked him to investigate
Joe Biden and his son.
The memo shows Zelenskiy promised to reopen an investigation into a company that employed Biden's son and voiced frustration about what he said was a lack of support from German Chancellor
Angela Merkel and French President
Emmanuel Macron when it came to enforcing
sanctions on Russia.