In a joint speech in the Oval Cabinet on Friday, both leaders faced before the official meeting began, as the Ukrainian president will improve tense ties with Washington.
Raising the voice in Zelenskyy, who repeatedly referred to his needs for the US security guarantee, Trump said: “You now have no cards.. You are gambling with the life of millions. You are gambling with the Third World War.”
The US president, who has repeatedly attacked his Ukrainian counterpart, issued Zelensky with an ultimatum, saying that he either “concluded a deal (in the war) or we came out.”
The extraordinary collision raised doubts about any attempt to end the three -year war. While Trump pushed to a quick deal with Russia and Ukraine, Kiev said he would not have a steady agreement without US support.
A few minutes after the cameras were issued, in a statement announced by the White House talks, Trump wrote: “President Zelensky is not ready for peace when he is involved in America because he believes that our participation gives him a great advantage in the negotiations.”
He added: “I don’t want the advantage, I want peace. He respected the United States in his cherished oval. He can return when ready for peace.
On Friday afternoon Zelensky wrote on X: “Thanks America, thank you for this visit. Thank you @potus, Congress and American people. Ukraine needs fair and long peace, and we work for that.”
During the meeting of the Oval Office Vice President J. D. Vens criticized Zelensky, saying that he was not enough for the support of the Trump administration.
Later on Friday, Trump stated that the meeting with Zelensky “failed exactly from his point of view. He was very overloading his hand. We are looking for peace.”
“He wants to continue and fight, fight, fight,” Trump said. “We are looking to complete death.”
After the meeting in the oval office blew up, US officials squeezed and decided to order Zelensky to leave, the White House official said. Two US officials were sent to the Roosevelt’s room, where the Ukrainians were waiting to ask them to leave.
One of the Ukrainians offered a meeting between Trump and Zelensky to calmly tension, but the US said “no,” the official said.
The fiery dispute was shocked by Ukrainians who hoped to observe the signing of the minerals, which Zelenskyy hoped that it would help to move the key ally to providing guarantees that could strengthen the future ceasefire.
A man from Zelenskyy in the Oval Cabinet told Financial Times that the meeting ended without signing the deal.
On Friday night, when asked by Fox News, whether he should replace Trump apologies, Zelenki said, “I respect the president, I respect the American people. I think we should be very open and very honest and I’m not sure we have done something bad.”
“It’s not good for both sides,” he added. Asked if his relationship with Trump could escape, he replied, “Yes, of course.”
The struggle closes the Extraordinary Week at which the United States sided with Russia, China and countries such as the North Korea and Belarus in the UN against historical allies, such as the UK and France.
European officials were in the scenes from the Oval Office, and one high -ranking diplomat concluded that “we independently” described the Trump administration as “bewildered”.
“We finally need to wake up and realize,” That’s all, “the diplomat added.
During the dispute, the Ambassador of Ukraine to Washington, Oksana Markov, was noticed as her eyes closed, lowering her head and grabbing her nose bridge when the argument grew.
Zelensky stated that preliminary discussions with President Vladimir Putin, starting with the annexation of Crimea 2014, could not prevent Russia from attacking Ukraine again.
“He broke the ceasefire, he killed our people,” Zelensky said. “What kind of diplomacy do you ask?” He said in response to Vnes’ comments that the United States tried diplomacy.
“From the very beginning of the war, we remained alone,” Zelenka added.
He was swore at Vens, who asked, “Do you think that the United States’s Oval Office is respectfully and attacking the administration that is trying to prevent the destruction of your country?”
The Ukrainian leader replied: “Everyone has problems during the war, but you have (a) a good ocean and you don’t feel (it) now, but you will feel it in the future.” Trump replied that Zelensky “unable to dictate what we will feel.”
Trump and Vnes pressed Zelensky to thank the United States. “You don’t win. You don’t win it. You have a damn good chance to get out normally, from us, “Trump said.
Speaking to journalists outside the White House on Friday, Republican Senator and Trump Eli Lindsey Graham said Zelensky should leave if he is not ready to work with the administration.
“He either needs to resign and send anyone, with whom we can do the business or he needs to change,” Graham said.
Zelensky was engaged in the place at the negotiating table after Trump dazzled Kiev and other European capitals, launching direct negotiations with Putin over the end of the conflict.
Leaders were also signed to sign minerals to create a joint American “Investment Fund”, which receives half all income from “future monetization” of natural resources owned by Kyiv.
Zelensky’s visit to the United States went to the UK Prime Minister Sir Keira Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron to lobby for Trump to provide the American “back platform” by the European peacekeeper in Ukraine after the fight has ended.
Trump also refused to promise US troops, as Starmer and Zelenko hoped.
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, and Antonio Costa, president of the European Council, said: “Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be bold, be fearless. You are never alone, dear Zelensky.”
An additional report by Henry Foya in Brussels and Leila Abud in Paris
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