Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has no plans to resign after his disastrous Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump on Friday.
Speaking to reporters at Stansted Airport before he left the UK, Zelensky said that he’s “ready to sign” the minerals deal with the United States, which has been put on hold after his stormy meeting with Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
Zelensky claimed during the interview that he “just wants the Ukrainian position to be heard” when he was asked about the horrific meeting with Trump on Friday at the White House.
“We want our partners to remember who the aggressor is in this war. We need peace, not endless war,” Zelensky said following a summit in London with Ukraine’s European allies over the weekend.
“In the near future, all of us in Europe will shape our common positions – the lines we must achieve and the lines we cannot compromise on. These positions will be presented to our partners in the United States,” he added.
After Zelensky was taught a lesson by his allies in the Oval Office on Friday, security guarantees from Europe will help mend the rift between Washington and Kyiv.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that his country, France, “and others,” would work with Ukraine to come up with a way to end the fighting. They would then present this plan to Washington.
The French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, gave diplomatic assurances by saying that the ceasefire on “air, sea, and energy” would give allies a chance to see if Russia was ready to end the war with Ukraine.
In addition, he said he thought Trump and Zelensky could start talking again. This was a message echoed by Peter Mandelson, Britain’s U.S. ambassador, who said on Sunday that relations needed a “very radical reset” and that Zelensky and Trump should try to talk again.
To get the U.S. to support a lasting peace deal again, Ukraine’s European allies have said they are ready to support a truce.
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White House official Stephen Miller shredded Zelensky’s behavior during his Oval Office meeting.
He spoke to Fox News host Jesse Watters following the fiery exchanges where he accused the Ukrainian president of being disrespectful towards the leader of the free world.
“I don’t think anybody had any idea that Zelenskyy would be so impertinent, so disrespectful, so insulting to the United States of America,” Miller began.
“Look, this is one of the great moments in the history of American diplomacy, the way that President Trump and JD Vance stood up for American interests in the world stage, the way that President Trump defended Americans after years of being fleeced and abused and taken advantage of and taken for granted, millions of American hearts swelled with overflowing pride today to watch President Trump put Zelenskyy in his place,” he told Waters.
“The only reason that Zelenskyy has a country, that Zelenskyy is in power is because the United States, Americans have suffered economically funding this war now for years. American security has been degraded, our stockpiles depleted, our ability to project power in other regions of the world negatively affected to protect and defend Ukraine,” Miller continued.
“Americans probably don’t even know the true extent of just how much military support on multiple levels and fronts America has provided to Ukraine, and then this man shows up in the Oval Office and lectures us, says we have to do more, says we’re not as good as Europe, says that we need to provide them a forever war guarantee, fight Russia till the end of time,” Miller added.
“No American watching that today says they want to send their sons and daughters to die on behalf of Zelenskyy, and President Trump was clear and firm and principled saying either you’re our partner for peace in ending this war, or we can’t work with you. And Zelenskyy for the first time since this has begun, finally met a Western leader willing to assert their own interests, the interests of their own country and not bow down to and venerate this man as a messianic figure,” the adviser noted further.
“Americans have watched with horror as Zelenskyy has been treated as a messiah. Our hearts all break for the suffering and loss and death. But you know what will be even worse, World War Three, and today, President Trump said, we are not going to let this escalate into World War Three. He defended the Oval Office, he defended the White House, and most importantly, he defended the American people. And I was honored and proud to be there to witness this moment in history,” he said.
