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Trump and Zelensky Clash in the Oval Office Shouting Match

The US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky, Zelensky, collided on Friday in an extraordinary screaming match in the Oval Office and made the efforts to end the war with Russia in balance.

“You will either complete a deal or we are outside,” said an angry Trump to Zelensky, as a meeting that loosened the tensions about the sudden US output to Russia.

“They play with the life of millions of people. They play with the Third World War and what they do is very disrespectful for this country,” added Trump.

Zelensky was in the White House to sign a contract for the parts of the Ukraine mineral softness and to discuss a peace agreement with Russia, although the US President recently branded his Ukrainian counterpart a dictator.

The meeting took place after a one -week diplomatic dance, in which the leaders of France and Great Britain came to the White House to persuade Trump not to give up Kyiv.

But the minds became frayed after Vice President JD Vance said that “diplomacy” was necessary to end the war. Zelensky asked “what kind of diplomacy” and Vance then accused him of being “disrespectful” in the president's office.

“Hard business”

Trump then supported his Vice President when the leaders fought over whether the USA could not stop Putin after the annexation of the 2014 Crimea, and the situation was increasingly tense.

“They are not grateful at all,” said Trump.

“It will be a very difficult thing to do such business,” said Trump. “It will be difficult to make because the settings have to change.”

Zelensky fought Trump with Trump in a quieter voice and accused her of “speaking loudly”.

Trump had alerted US allies and built up the longstanding Ukraine policy in Washington two weeks ago when he spoke to the Russian President Vladimir Putin and started with discussions about the end of the three-year war.

Trump said reporters on Friday that he had spoken Putin on “numerous occasions” since then.

The US manager has asked for a deal that Washington preferred to access Washington to rare earth and other natural resources in Ukraine as a price for continued to refuse to grant Kyiv security guarantees as part of an armistice with Russia.

“We will dig, ditch, dig” after the resources of Ukraine, said Trump on Thursday before the meeting and repeats his slogan of the presidential election campaign about how the United States “Bohrer, Baby, Bohrer” for oil.

“Dictator without elections”

The collision came, although Trump recently softened his tone on Zelensky in the past few days, after insulting him as a “dictator without elections” last week, the Ukraine accused the invasion of Russia in February 2022 and contradicted a number of Kremlin talking topics about the war.

“I have a lot of respect for him,” Trump said on Thursday at a joint press conference with the British Prime Minister Keir Starrer about Zelensky. “We will get by very well.”

Trump, a billionaire property -Tycoon, insists that Washington is necessary to regain the billions of dollars that Ukraine has given the military and other help.

Before his arrival in Washington, Zelensky said that the US and Ukrainian officials would determine the type of security guarantees for Ukraine and the exact money sums of the agreement, he said.

But Trump – who said this week he trusted Putin to “keep his word on a ceasefire”, and has repeatedly expressed admiration for the authoritarian Russian leader in the past – refused to commit himself to security.

Great Britain and France offered both peace troops in the event of an agreement to end the Ukraine secretary, but say that there must be a US “backstop” – including American intelligence and possibly air power.

After their phone call on February 12, Putin and Trump said that they had agreed to meet personally – but they have not yet completed a meeting.

But when the tensions between Moscow and Washington subsided, Russia's attack continued on Ukraine.

On Friday, the Russian infantry stormed the Ukrainian border from the Russian region of Kursk near the region areas that were confiscated by the Ukrainian armed forces last summer, said Kyiv.

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