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(NewsNation) — The Oval Office spat betwixt Presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy is raising superior questions astir the aboriginal of the U.S.-Ukraine alliance.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said determination is simply a rift successful the narration and accused Zelenskyy of lasting against freedom.
"Many of these European countries who are coming to Zelenskyy's side arsenic helium walked retired of the White House saying fundamentally that they are going to enactment him successful continuing this war, and that they don't basal with america astir these cardinal values of freedom," Gabbard said connected "Fox News Sunday."
National information advisor Mike Waltz and House Speaker Mike Johnson person besides joined a growing chorus of Republicans who deliberation Ukraine mightiness beryllium amended disconnected uncovering a caller leader.
"Something has to change. Either helium needs to travel to his senses and travel backmost to the array successful gratitude, oregon idiosyncratic other needs to pb the state to bash that," Johnson told NBC's "Meet the Press" connected Sunday.
GOP lawmakers divided connected Trump-Zelenskyy feud
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, blasted Trump's attack to Ukraine.
On Saturday, Murkowski lamented the concern connected societal media: "I americium sick to my tummy arsenic the medication appears to beryllium walking distant from our allies and embracing Putin, a menace to ideology and U.S. values astir the world."
Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., said it was inappropriate for senators to telephone for Zelenskyy to resign and predicted that specified a determination would “spiral Ukraine into chaos close now.”
On the heels of the tense clash successful the Oval Office, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reportedly paused each U.S. Cyber Command actions against Russia indefinitely — including imaginable integer offensives by the Pentagon.
This comes arsenic Moscow celebrates the White House's position. A Kremlin spokesperson said the Trump administration's caller attack aligns with Russia's vision.
Zelenskyy acknowledgment US aft Trump altercation
For his part, Zelenskyy seems to beryllium trying to get things backmost connected track.
During a acme with European leaders successful London implicit the weekend, Zelenskyy recommitted to signing a rare world minerals deal with the U.S. That woody was primitively meant to spell nationalist during Friday's White House visit.
Zelenskyy besides stressed Ukraine's gratitude to the U.S., writing connected societal media Sunday:
“We are precise grateful to the United States for each the support. I’m thankful to President Trump, Congress for their bipartisan support, and American people. Ukrainians person ever appreciated this support, particularly during these 3 years of full-scale invasion."
UK acme drafts bid program for Ukraine
At Saturday's summit, European leaders bolstered enactment for Ukraine and drafted a ceasefire program for presumption to the U.S.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer besides promised a $2 cardinal woody to money air-defense missiles for Ukraine.
“Because my absorption was we person to span this, we person to find a mode that we tin each enactment unneurotic due to the fact that successful the extremity we’ve had 3 years of bloody struggle now, we request to get to that lasting peace,” Starmer told the BBC.
Early chatter of a bid woody involves a impermanent truce lasting astir 1 month, but however soon that woody could travel — and if it volition see information guarantees — remains uncertain.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
