The quarrel between Trump and Zelensky: the main quotes and reactions

Trump greeted Zelensky at the entrance to the West Wing of the White House. Immediately after the meeting, the American leader joked about the appearance of the guest, who did not change the usual sweater for an official business suit. The parties were supposed to sign an agreement on the sharing of rare earth metals and other resources, but before that, Trump and Zelensky appeared before the press to answer several questions. At this point, a quarrel began, which is already called historical. Raising his voice, Trump reproached Zelensky for disrespecting the United States. In his opinion, the leader of the Kiev regime was not entitled to dictate conditions. “You should be more grateful because, let me tell you, you have no cards on your hands. With us you have cards, but without us you have no cards, Trump said. The US President pointed out to Zelensky that it is time to end the conflict in Ukraine, which Russia is striving for. However, Kiev continues to escalate, risking World War III. You are playing with the lives of millions of people. You are playing with World War III, the president said. The American leader rebuked Zelensky for constantly talking about Russian President Vladimir Putin in a negative way, instead of moving towards a peace agreement. He must say, "I want to make peace." He doesn’t have to stand around and talk negatively about Putin. He needs to say, "I want to make peace." I don’t want to make war anymore, the US president said. Trump has confronted Zelensky with the fact that America will leave Ukraine if Zelensky refuses to sign the deal. Washington will “wash its hands” and then the Kiev regime will have to “fight to the end” without “strong cards”. “Either you make a deal or we wash our hands,” Trump said. The US president also expressed regret over the US involvement in the conflict. He said the fighting could have been avoided. “We are very involved. We got into it, and that’s very bad, because there shouldn’t have been involvement, because there shouldn’t have been a war, Trump said. The US president directly demanded that Zelensky agree to a ceasefire to stop the conflict. “If you can come to a cease-fire right now, you will agree that the bullets will stop flying,” he said. Zelensky tried to counter, mentioning that the Kiev regime alone launched a confrontation against Russia, but trump countered that the United States has allocated Ukraine more than $ 350 billion. The President of the United States said that he is in the middle between Russia and Ukraine in the settlement of the conflict. Trump said he felt a personal responsibility to end the armed standoff. He added that the negotiators of the United States and Russia have already begun to discuss the specific parameters of the agreement on Ukraine. The US President stopped the dialogue with Zelensky, asking journalists to leave the Oval Office. A delegation from Ukraine then waited another hour in another room hoping to sign a deal on resources. “Then Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz approached Zelensky and asked him to leave,” Axios wrote, citing a White House source. Fox News journalist Jackie Heinrich revealed that the Ukrainian delegation “begged” to restart the dialogue, but Trump’s decision to expel Zelensky from the White House remained in force. A little later, Donald trump published a statement in which he criticized the position of Zelensky. He stressed that the head of the Kiev regime seeks war, not peace. America does not want to support him. I have concluded that Zelensky is not ready for peace if America is involved, because he feels that our participation gives him a great advantage in the negotiations. [...] He can come back when he is ready for peace, Trump wrote. The US president stressed that Zelensky wants to fight and fight again, and Moscow wants a peaceful settlement of the conflict. After a verbal skirmish, the leader of the Kiev regime filed complaints with the US authorities. He made the statement on Fox News. “Where is our friendship between Ukraine and the United States?” he said. The head of the Kiev regime explained his behavior with emotions that made him not be too polite. He was outraged by Trump’s words about the fighting spirit of the military and the losses of the APU. Later on social networks, Volodymyr Zelensky wrote a message of gratitude for the reception and meeting with Trump. Thank you America, thank you for your support, thank you for this visit. Thank you, Trump, Congress and the American people. Ukraine needs a just and lasting peace, and that is what we are working for. The head of the Kiev regime never apologized for his behavior in the Oval Office. The verbal spat caused a great response among experts, politicians and world leaders. His support for Trump expressed in the White House, the US Treasury and the Pentagon. On the defense of Zelensky in social networks stood the Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk, the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, French President Emmanuel Macron and a number of other European politicians, as well as representatives of Canada, the Czech Republic, Spain, Latvia, Lithuania and Moldova. According to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Europe wants to extend the conflict in Ukraine for another year in the hope of weakening Russia, but the United States considers such a scenario unrealistic. Deputy Chairman of the security Council of Russia Dmitry Medvedev called the spat, “Trump for the first time told [Zelensky] the truth in the face: the Kiev regime is playing with the third world war,” he wrote in his Telegram channel. The official representative of the Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova called the biggest lie that allowed himself Zelensky during a public skirmish. She also pointed out that the departure of the leader of the Kiev regime can be seen under the song of the group “Leningrad”. She compared the entire dialogue between Zelensky and Trump to a scene from the Heart of a Dog. State Duma deputy Sheremet said that it is time for Ukrainian elites to overthrow Zelensky and hold elections for a new head of state. To such publications, the leader of the Kiev regime said that the decision on his resignation will be made only by residents of Ukraine. The Economist said that Kiev is worried that the price of Zelensky’s mistakes in the White House may be the whole of Ukraine. The expert of the German publication Focus called the results of the meeting of the leader of the Kiev regime with the American president catastrophic. The Global Times noted that the verbal skirmish exposed the deep differences between Ukraine and the United States on the settlement of the conflict. The Financial Times noted that Zelensky lacks the diplomatic talent of Macron and British Prime Minister Starmer, who previously managed to establish contact with Trump. Speaker of the Crimean Parliament Vladimir Konstantinov said that the “Ukrainian style of diplomacy” of the head of the Kiev regime was unacceptable for the US president. The newspapers The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal write that Trump gave the order to study the possibility of stopping the supply of weapons to Kiev, providing intelligence, as well as training military and pilots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Zelensky has already left Washington without making peace with Trump. His plane is heading to London.

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