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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked President Trump for hosting his sojourn to the United States connected Friday contempt the 2 leaders’ clash successful the Oval Office, which led to the cancelation of further talks and a White House property conference.
Zelenskyy’s post connected X aft the gathering thanked Trump, "Congress, and the American people."
“Ukraine needs conscionable and lasting peace, and we are moving precisely for that,” helium said.
But the station came aft Trump called off negotiations with Zelenskyy connected ending the warfare betwixt Ukraine and Russia pursuing the heated Oval Office speech implicit U.S. support.
The meeting, which besides featured Vice President Vance, began cordially, but tensions escalated aft Vance suggested a diplomatic solution could beryllium reached with Russia to extremity the war.
Zelenskyy pointed to years of Russian President Vladimir Putin seeking to instrumentality Ukrainian territory and violating ceasefires. Vance argued that Zelenskyy had been ungrateful for U.S. support, and Trump told Zelenskyy that helium is not successful a presumption to person overmuch leverage successful talks.
After the meeting, Trump posted connected Truth Social that Zelenskyy is “not acceptable for Peace” and that helium “disrespected” the U.S. successful the Oval Office.
“He tin travel backmost erstwhile helium is acceptable for peace,” Trump said.
The 2 leaders had been scheduled to instrumentality portion successful a associated property league and motion a woody giving the U.S. entree to Ukraine’s proviso of captious minerals.
The woody was not signed.
Trump has alarmed allies and lawmakers from some parties by slamming Zelenskyy successful caller weeks, calling him a “dictator” and accusing him of doing a “terrible job” arsenic president of Ukraine. He besides suggested Zelenskyy was responsible for starting the war, which began with Russia's unprovoked penetration successful 2022.
But Trump had appeared to locomotion backmost his comments during a gathering with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, successful effect to a reporter’s question astir if helium inactive believed Zelenskyy was a dictator.
“Did I accidental that? I can’t judge I said that. Next question,” Trump said.
