Trump cuts short talks with Ukraine's Zelenskyy after Oval Office blow up | LIVE

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump shouted astatine Ukraine's person connected Friday during an bonzer gathering successful the Oval Office, berating President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for "gambling with millions of lives" and suggesting his actions could trigger World War III.

The past 10 minutes of the astir 45-minute engagement devolved into a tense backmost and distant betwixt Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Zelenskyy - who had urged skepticism astir Russia's committedness to diplomacy, citing Moscow's years of breached commitments connected the planetary stage.

It began with Vance telling Zelenskyy, "Mr. President, with respect. I deliberation it's disrespectful for you to travel to the Oval Office to effort to litigate this successful beforehand of the American media."

Zelensky tried to object, prompting Trump to rise his dependable and say, "You're gambling with the lives of millions of people."

"You're gambling with World War III, and what you're doing is precise disrespectful to the country, this state that's backed you acold much than a batch of radical accidental they should have," Trump said.

It was an astonishing show of unfastened antagonism successful the Oval Office, a mounting amended known for somber diplomacy. Trump laid bare his efforts to coerce Zelenskyy to hold to giving the U.S. an involvement successful his country's invaluable minerals and to propulsion him toward a diplomatic solution to the warfare connected the American leader's terms.

Earlier successful the gathering Trump said the U.S. would proceed to supply subject assistance to Ukraine, but said helium hoped that not excessively overmuch assistance would beryllium forthcoming. "We're not looking guardant to sending a batch of arms," Trump said. "We're looking guardant to getting the warfare finished truthful we tin bash different things."

Trump suggested that Zelenskyy wasn't successful a presumption to beryllium demanding concessions.

"You're not successful a bully position. You don't person the cards close now," Trump said pointing his digit toward Zelenskyy. "With america you commencement having cards."

He besides accused Zelenskyy of being "disrespectful" to the U.S.

"It's going to beryllium a precise hard happening to bash concern similar this," Trump told Zelenskyy astatine 1 point, arsenic the 2 leaders talked implicit each different astir past planetary enactment for Ukraine.

"Again, conscionable accidental convey you," Vance interjected to Zelenskyy, blasting him for litigating "disagreements" successful beforehand of the press. Trump, though, suggested helium was good with the drama. "I deliberation it's bully for the American radical to spot what's going on," helium added.

"You're not acting astatine each thankful," Trump said, earlier adding, "This is going to beryllium large television."

The harsh words came astatine a pivotal and precarious infinitesimal for Ukraine. Zelenskyy had planned to effort to person the White House to supply immoderate signifier of U.S. backing for Ukraine's information against immoderate aboriginal Russian aggression.

Zelenskyy is inactive expected to motion a landmark economical statement with the U.S. aimed astatine financing the reconstruction of war-damaged Ukraine, a woody that would intimately necktie the 2 countries unneurotic for years to come.

The deal, which is seen arsenic a measurement toward ending the three-year war, references the value of Ukraine's security. Earlier successful the meeting, earlier tempers flared, Trump said the statement would beryllium signed soon successful the East Room of the White House.

"We person thing that is simply a precise just deal," Trump said, adding, "It is simply a large committedness from the United States."

He said the U.S. wants to spot the sidesplitting successful the warfare stopped, adding that U.S. wealth for Ukraine should beryllium "put to antithetic kinds of usage similar rebuilding."

Earlier, Zelenskyy called Russian President Vladimir Putin a violent and told Trump that Ukraine and the satellite request "no compromises with a killer."

"Even during the warfare determination are rules," helium said.

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As Ukrainian forces clasp retired against dilatory but dependable advances by Russia's larger and better-equipped army, leaders successful Kyiv person pushed to guarantee a imaginable U.S.-brokered bid program would see guarantees for the country's aboriginal security.

Many Ukrainians fearfulness that a hastily negotiated bid - particularly 1 that makes excessively galore concessions to Russian demands - would let Moscow to rearm and consolidate its forces for a aboriginal penetration aft existent hostilities cease.

According to the preliminary economical agreement, seen by The Associated Press, the U.S. and Ukraine volition found a co-owned, jointly managed concern money to which Ukraine volition lend 50% of aboriginal revenues from earthy resources, including minerals, hydrocarbons and different extractable materials.

Speaking astir the uncommon earths agreement, Trump said the U.S. is lacking successful galore specified minerals portion Ukraine has among the champion connected the planet. He said U.S. interests program to instrumentality those reserves and usage them connected everything from artificial quality operations to subject weapons.

Asked astir semipermanent information warrant to defender against aboriginal Russian aggression, Trump says erstwhile the statement is signed that a instrumentality to warring was unlikely.

Trump, a Republican, has framed the emerging statement arsenic a accidental for Kyiv to compensate the U.S. for wartime assistance sent nether his predecessor, Democratic President Joe Biden.

But Zelenskyy has remained steadfast that circumstantial assurances for Ukraine's information indispensable travel immoderate statement giving U.S. entree to Ukraine's resources.

This is Zelenskyy's 5th White House visit, but his erstwhile 4 came during the Biden administration. The Ukrainian president besides was gathering with U.S. senators during his clip successful Washington.

Fears that Trump could broker a bid woody with Russia that is unfavorable to Ukraine person been amplified by caller precedent-busting actions by his administration. Trump held a lengthy telephone telephone with Putin, and U.S. officials met with their Russian counterparts successful Saudi Arabia without inviting European oregon Ukrainian leaders - some melodramatic breaks with erstwhile U.S. argumentation to isolate Putin implicit his invasion.

Trump aboriginal seemed to falsely blasted Ukraine for starting the war, and called Zelenskyy a "dictator" for not holding elections aft the extremity of his regular word past year, though Ukrainian instrumentality prohibits elections portion martial instrumentality is successful place.

Spike reported from Kyiv, Ukraine. Aaamer Madhani contributed.