Some Senate Republicans took issue Wednesday with President Trump’s escalating criticism of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a “dictator” and his false assertion that Ukraine provoked the ongoing war with Russia, now in its third year.

Trump’s “dictator” remark came in a scathing post on his TruthSocial social account, and followed comments by Zelenskyy earlier in the day that he “would like to see more truth from the Trump team.”