Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky left the White House just moments ago after a shouting match with President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance in front of the media in the Oval Office.
He departed without signing the minerals deal and without holding the joint news conference with Trump, as was earlier planned.
He did not speak to the media before departing in his motorcade.
Olga Tokariuk, an academy associate at the Ukraine Forum of British think tank Chatham House, said President Donald Trump was “siding with the aggressor” following his tense Oval Office exchange with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“Total bully tactics by the US president and VP. This is not diplomacy. This is not neutrality. This is siding with the aggressor and trying to finish off the victim,” Tokariuk said in a post on X.
Tokariuk is also a non-resident fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Donald Trump will no longer hold a joint news conference on Friday, a White House official confirmed.
The Ukrainians are about to leave the White House.
An adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin reacted to video of the heated Oval Office exchange between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Donald Trump with only one word.
“Historic,” Kirill Dmitriev, a special envoy to Putin, wrote on X.
Dmitriev is the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund and he attended the recent discussions between the US and Russia in Saudi Arabia.
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