At least 24 people have been killed and entire neighborhoods in Los Angeles reduced to ash as California faces what its governor, Gavin Newsom, said could be the worst natural disaster in United States history.
Zelenskyy’s offer came after Donald Trump Jr., eldest son and adviser of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, took a swipe last week at Ukraine over the fires.
“Oh look of course the LA fire department donated a bunch of their supplies to Ukraine,” Trump Jr. wrote on social media, sharing an article from 2022 about the Los Angeles County Fire Department donating surplus supplies like boots, hoses, nozzles, body armor and medication to Ukraine.
The comment was the Trump camp’s latest dig at Kyiv, with the president-elect repeatedly threatening to pull American aid for Ukraine and deriding President Zelenskyy as “the greatest salesman in history.”
A war of words has also erupted between Republicans and top Democrats in solidly blue state California over the catastrophic fires, with Trump referring to Newsom as “Newscum” — a nickname the president-elect had used for the governor before the fire — accusing him of “incompetence” in handling the disaster.
