Trump broke up the talks, and the Ukrainians were expelled from the White House. According to sources of television, the Ukrainian side wanted to get back to the talks, but the Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump's national safety advisor Mike Waltz were to tell Zelenski that he had to leave the United States.
In the late afternoon of Friday, February 28, Zelenski and Trump were to sign the final version of the agreement on the extraction of uncommon earth metallic deposits located in Ukraine. The text of the agreement indicated that Ukraine would commit to creating a fund from the US to which 50% of future income from the extraction of state natural resources will be paid. This includes minerals, oil and gas as well as related gross from ports and liquefied natural gas terminals. However, the agreement did not contain a safety warrant for Ukraine, which Zelenski insisted.
– You're playing with millions of lives, playing with the 3rd planet War said Trump, addressing Zelenski. The US leader besides stressed that his Ukrainian counterpart He's not very grateful. For your help. – You have no cards in your hand. Without us, you have no cards, you have nothing – the American president assessed. – I'm the reason you can play the tough guy now. Either you accept our offer, or we're off. You have no leverage. said Trump to Zelenski. – Mr President, with all due respect, I think it's disrespectful to come to the Oval Office and effort to argue in front of the American media. – added Vice president J.D. Vance.
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– I've never seen specified an outburst of rudeness in my life erstwhile it comes to global relations - Yes Prof. Roman Kuźniar commenting on the feud between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenski in the White House. – So that the president of the large power and his sassy adjutant, the vice president, so rudely, would treat a man from a country who is the subject of aggression who came to sign a supposedly very lucrative agreement for the US. And who simply demanded, very rightly, to supplement this agreement with any safety clauses of his country (...). He admitted that watching the White home broadcast, he was shocked. – If I were there, I'd most likely leave erstwhile both screamed. But the stakes prevailed and Zelenski endured this attack.
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– We had 2 against 1 and specified a brawl in the White home did not happen in the fresh past of the United States if always – said Wojciech Lorenz, analyst of the Polish Institute of global Affairs. – Zelenski was determined to, whatever he signed, get any safety guarantees from the United States that Trump refused to give. And I think that led to a fight. This exposed Vance and Trump’s actual intentions towards Ukraine that they were politicians and petty individuals. It's to remind him that he's not grateful adequate to have no cards in his hand. This is all the behaviour of a typical violent man who tries to force individual to accept conditions that are absolutely unacceptable. If, indeed, the United States continues without involving Ukraine and Europe to negociate with Russia, it will be clear to everyone that we are dealing with Yalta 2.0.
– The aim of president Zelenski was to implement the Ukrainian interest, i.e. maximum normalization of relations with the United States, and ended in a disaster – argued Adam Eberhardt, Deputy manager of east European Studies at the University of Warsaw. – President Zelenski came to Washington for this, so he wanted to sign a natural material agreement to extinguish distrust in relations with the Trump administration. It's apparent to me that Vice president Vance was the 1 who provoked president Trump. On the another hand, president Zelenski's goal was (...) to accomplish the Ukrainian interest, i.e. maximum normalization of relations with the United States, and ended in a disaster.
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“Dear president Zelenski, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.” The Prime Minister wrote Donald Tusk on platform X after the visit of the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenski to the White House. The talker of the Sejm besides assured support and respect for Ukraine Simon Holovnia. Minister for abroad Affairs Radosław Sikorski: – My heart is with the brave soldiers of Ukraine who defend the bastions of freedom against aggression, greed and nihilism. Poland will support free Ukraine until fair peace is achieved.
– Our allies have repeatedly proven that honest and liable cooperation is the foundation of safety for all of us. This cooperation present needs peace and unity, not negative emotions. The enemy is in another place. #StrongerTogether – wrote on X Władysław Kosiniak-Kamish. “Poland has trust capital in the USA, Europe and Ukraine. We must usage this skillfully – for the sake of everyone. Emotions are a bad counselor. We request courage and discretion – wrote the presidential candidate Rafał Trzaskowski.
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– I don't have the courage to comment on this in a way that would be unambiguous, due to the fact that there's no clarity here. – said Jan Hell, erstwhile Polish Ambassador to Ukraine. – Volodymyr Zelenski fights for safety, for any guarantees for Ukraine, that is completely understandable. The Ukrainian president has learned a lot, I remember him as a presidential candidate, as he was at an ambassador's gathering in EU countries, where he presented himself simply fatally. He spoke only Russian at the time, tried in English, but it went terribly wrong. Now this is simply a statesman simply who could be a function model for European leaders who have screwed up the full line.
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– This day will go to the past of planet diplomacy and planet politics. I don't know what it'll end with yet, but unfortunately, nothing good is to be expected. I was in the Oval Office twice in the White home talking to president Bush. Now I wonder how I would respond if Bush had treated me like this— commented Leszek Miller. – No uncertainty Zelenski found himself in an enviable situation. possibly this is the end of his political career and, in any case, the end of his function as president of Ukraine. The full planet sees it, and if it hasn't, it will. He doesn't have the right position to represent Ukraine and to negotiate. – added Miller, pointing out that specified a conversation script could have been previously developed by the American side. – What we saw were roles that were played masterfully by both presidents. The worst that could happen now is simply a sharp crack between Europe and the United States. According to the erstwhile Prime Minister, modern Europe means small on the planet map without US support.
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– Alliances with US president Donald Trump are impossible – He said Viktor Zamiatin from Ukrainian think tank Razumkow Center. In turn Volodymyr Horbach, Head of the Kiev Institute of Transformation of Northern Eurasia, defined Trump's gathering with Zelenski as follows: – A madhouse in the White House. This is simply a fresh standard in public talks with the Trump administration. (bankier.pl))
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– It was frightening and disgraceful to see the president of my country crawl, blackmail and humiliate the head of a country that was the victim of terrible aggression, at the same time saying warm words about Putina. Looking at it, I felt profoundly ashamed. – said Ian Brzezinski, erstwhile high-ranking Pentagon official. He added that Trump's behaviour was more than just morally disgusting, but illogical for the interests of the United States. – The only thing Trump achieved is to undermine his own strategy of "peace through strength." I cannot realize why she refuses to usage American force against Russia and directs it all against the victim by twisting her hands against Ukrainians. His actions seem to be following Vladimir Putin's orders.
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– We are all fascinated by the cuisine of planet politics. During the gathering between Trump and Zelenski, we were allowed to visit it, inviting journalists to the Oval Office. What we thought was a kitchen was a slaughterhouse in the American edition (...). We have learned what “negotiation” looks like between Trump and people like him and the country's president facing the wall on the brink of collapse. It is hard to realize the intent of inviting journalists to the Oval Office for specified a performance. On the available recordings, president Trump and Vice president D.J. Vance simply beat the leader of the country attacked by Russia (...) – wrote Martin Ripped.
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Portal expert Defence24.pl Commander Lt. dir. Maximilian Dura expressed hope that the dispute between Volodymyr Zelenski and Donald Trump in the White home would not affect the destiny of Ukraine at all due to the fact that Kiev would proceed to defend itself. He assessed that Trump's conversations with the Russian Federation have most likely failed.. – Russia does not want peace, and if it wants peace, then on specified conditions, that even the United States is incapable to accept them, due to the fact that the Russian Federation not only wants Ukraine, but besides wants the subordination of NATO countries (...). – I completely disagree with the message that Putin is simply a strong, strong politician. Putin is simply a bad politician, due to the fact that until Trump appeared, he did not fulfill any of his promises at the time he started the war....
In turn Prof. Michał Urbańczyk from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, he assessed that President Trump may be mistaken to say that Ukraine and president Zelenski have no assets in hand. – Although Russian troops are moving forward, the Ukrainians control the shortening of the front and have space to do so, and earlier, at the end of Joe Biden's term, they received considerable military aid... He stressed that Zelenski besides hoped for support from Europe. – In specified a situation, president Zelenski felt that signing specified a contract, without guarantees of security, is at this point unprofitable for Ukraine.
