Trump humiliates Zelenski at a tense meeting at the White House: «You are playing with World War

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, told President Volodimir Zelensky on Friday that Ukraine will have to do. ”commitments«In a truce with Moscow, while Zelensky insisted that there should be no concessions with the leader.»killer«From Russia.

In a heated encounter, Trump and Vice President JD Vance rebuked Zelensky, during a highly conflicting meeting on Friday at the White House. In an exchange of energetic words, both accused the Ukrainian leader of not showing enough gratitude for the support of the US and pressing to reach a peace agreement with Russia.

The meeting was held in an environment of growing tension. Vice President Vance described as «disrespectful«That Zelensky had come to the White House to expose his case to the press, while Trump warned the Ukrainian leader about his situation, saying:»You are not in a good position at this time” In addition, the former president added: «You are risking the third world war” At a particularly hard moment, Trump told Zelensky: «You have to make a deal «.

This confrontation reflects the growing divisions within the American leadership in relation to the conflict in Ukraine, in a context in which the US military and financial support remains a central issue in foreign policy.

«You cannot make any treatment without commitments. So you will certainly have to make some commitments, but hope they are not as big as some think”Trump said at a meeting at the White House.

But showing Trump photos of atrocities of war and referring to President Vladimir Putin, Zelensky said there should be no «No commitment to a murderer in our territory.»

«Crazy Russians,» he said, had deported Ukrainian children and committed war crimes during their three -year invasion of their country.

Despite the tension on who should make concessions in the search for the end of the war, Zelensky said: «I think President Trump is on our side.»

He said he would talk to the US president about The «crucial» need of a «support» of US security to any European deployment of peace forces that supervise an eventual truce.

«This is crucial, this is what we want to talk about, this is very important,» he said.

Trump has alarmed kyiv and his European allies with his sudden 180 degree turn in American politics, ending what had been an ultranza support to Ukraine’s attempt to defeat the Russian invasion and erecting a mediator between Putin and Zelensky.

Trump told Zelensky that a truce is «Pretty close.»

He also said that an agreement that was about to sign with Zelensky allowing US exploitation of Ukraine’s natural resources would be «Very fair.»

The Resources Agreement aims to give access to rare earth and other critical minerals as part of a general plan to help Ukraine recover after a truce.

Zelensky told Trump that he should visit his besieged nation. «You have to come and look.»