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Zelenskyys meet with Trump and Vance ends after screaming match

Washington – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and President Donald Trump broke off their talks on Friday after the two leaders in front of the media in the White House collided with Russia in an extraordinary exchange.

After the confrontation, Zelenskyy left the White House early without signing a much praised deal between Ukraine and the United States about the joint development of natural resources.

Trump later said on Friday that he wanted an “immediate” ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine and warned Zelenskyy of making peace or losing American support.

Zelenskyy said that Ukraine does not have any peace talks with Russia on Friday evening if security guarantees have against another offensive.

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Zelenskyy said Trump-der says that Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to end the three-year meal war, and must understand that Ukraine cannot change the attitude towards Russia in a cent.

The collision also undermines the recent efforts by European leaders to convince Trump to ensure security guarantees for Ukraine.

The European leaders jumped to Zelenskyy's defense on Friday. The German candidate for Chancellor Friedrich Merz said: “We must never confuse the attacker and the victim in this terrible war.”

Great Britain will organize a meeting of European leaders and Zelenskyy on Sunday to discuss a security deficit for a peace agreement between Moscow and Kyiv.

Vice President JD Vance emphasized the need for diplomacy to solve the greatest conflict in Europe since the Second World War, while Zelenskyy countered with reduced arms that Putin could not trust in any conversations and found that Vance had never visited Ukraine.

Zelenskyy openly challenged Trump on his softer approach to Putin and asked him to “make no compromises with a murderer”.

Trump, whose team said he and Vance stood “for Americans”, took the United States after the meeting in the social truth to accuse Zelenskyy.

“I found that President Zelenskyy is not ready for peace when America is involved,” he wrote and used an alternative spelling of the leader. “He can come back if he is ready for peace.”

The head of the Ukrainian armed forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, gave a statement to Telegram, in which he confirmed that his troops were Zelenskyy and that the strength of Ukraine was in their unity.

President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Friday, February 28, 2025. (Mstyslav Cherno / AP)

The reaction of Trump's Republican Party was mixed in the congress, while the Democrats insulted his dealings with the meeting.

The Ukrainian leader carried out the meeting in his non -native English and was exceeded in the course of Trump and Vance's progress.

“You are not in a good position. You don't have the cards at the moment. With us you catch cards, ”said Trump.

“I don't play cards, I mean it very seriously, Mr. President,” said Zelenskyy.

“You play cards. They play with the life of millions of people, they play with the third World War II, ”said Trump.

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The failures meant that the Ukraine and the United States could not sign a much -surveyed mineral contract from which Kyiv Trump would help to support Ukraine's war efforts, and possibly gain support from Republicans in the congress for a new auxiliary round.

The collision also undermined the efforts of the European leaders to convince Trump to ensure security guarantees for Ukraine, even if he has refused to use US soldiers on Ukrainian soil in order to maintain peace.

Such guarantees are considered crucial to prevent Russia from future aggression.

Trump threatened to withdraw from Ukraine's support from the United States.

“You will either make a deal or we're outside, and when we are on the road you will fight it. I don't think it will be pretty, ”Trump said to Zelenskyy.

“As soon as we sign this deal, you are in a much better position. But they don't act gratefully at all, and that's not a nice thing. I will be honest. It's not a nice thing. “

Trump emphasized that Putin wanted to make a deal.

Vance also threw that Zelenskyy was not disrespectful to get into the Oval Office to contest his position, a point with which Trump agreed.

“You didn't thank you,” said Vance. Zelenskyy, who raised his voice, replied: “I often said thanks to the American people.”

Zelenskyy, who received billions of dollars of US weapons and moral support from the Biden administration. Trump wants to quickly complete the three -year war, improve the relationships with Russia and repeat money that were spent on the support of Ukraine.

“I hope I will be remembered as a peace prison,” said Trump.

Previously, Trump said to Zelenskyy that his soldiers were incredibly brave and that the United States wanted to end the fights and the money to “achieve different types of use like reconstruction”.

Ukraine quickly expanded its production of the defense industry, but remains strongly dependent on foreign military support and at the same time fights to fill up workers because it is fighting a much larger enemy.

While the Ukraine recaptured the invasion of Russia from the city beaches of Kyiv and back in 2022 territory, Russia is still checking around a fifth of Ukraine and has slowly taken the ground since a failed Ukrainian rash in 2023.

After a 2024, Kyiv's troops have a piece of land in the western course region of Russia.

Trump has participated in a long -distance fare in a long -distance feud in the past few weeks, criticizes his dealings with the war, called him a “dictator” and asked him to agree to the mineral contract. He then distanced himself from the remark of the “dictator”.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.