The first time Donald Trump spoke to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, he tried to pressure Ukraine’s new leader to dig up dirt on Joe Biden ahead of the 2020 election
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine won’t enter peace talks with Russia until it has security guarantees against another offensive.
World leaders pledge support for Ukraine and emphasize Russia is the "aggressor" following Oval Office spat in which the Trump administration accused President Zelenskyy of being 'disrespectful.'
The former presidential candidate took the president and vice president to task after their contentious meeting with the Ukrainian president Friday.
The bombshell moment that played out in the Oval Office Friday afternoon and the palpable animosity on display between President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will have alarm bells ringing across Europe.
President Trump, Vice President JD Vance and President Zelensky are getting in an extremely heated back and forth in the Oval Office. Zelensky asks Vance to come to Ukraine and Vance accuses him of doing propaganda tours. Trump tells him, “You don’t have the cards right… pic.twitter.com/Uow3tzy0gD
President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance had a heated exchange with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office over the war in Ukraine, accusing him of not showing gratitude after he challenged Vance on the question of diplomacy with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
Trump said he's "determined that President Zelenskyy is not ready for Peace if America is involved." A U.S. deal for Ukraine's minerals appeared dead.
It was an astonishing display of open antagonism in the Oval Office, a setting better known for somber diplomacy. Trump laid bare his efforts to coerce Zelenskyy to agree to giving the U.S. an interest in his country’s valuable minerals and to push him toward a diplomatic resolution to the war on the American leader’s terms.