“Thank you America, thank you for your support, thank you for this visit. Thank you to the President of the United States, Congress and the American nation. Ukraine needs a fair and lasting peace. And we are working on this” – wrote President Wołodymyr Zelnski on Platform X after a failed meeting in the White House.
President Wołodymyr Zelanski guests on Friday in Washington, where in the White House he met with President of the United States Donald Trump. The conversations were to include, among others, partnership agreements on the operation of Ukrainian natural raw materials. The atmosphere of the meeting was very tense. A press conference of both leaders planned after the talks was canceled.
After meeting with Donald Trump, the president Ukraine He published an entry on social media. “Thank you America, thank you for your support, thank you for this visit. Thank you to the President of the United States, Congress and the American nation. Ukraine needs a fair and lasting peace. And we are working on this” – said Wołodymyr Zelnski on Platform X.
Nervous atmosphere of a meeting in the White House
The president's meeting was held on Friday USA Donald Trump with the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelnski in the White House. Trump announced that he would meet with Zelanski to sign a mineral agreement. The “Financial Times” reported that Kyiv is ready to conclude an agreement.
The plan presented by the American administration assumed that the meeting of the leaders would start at 5pm of Polish time. Trump welcomed Zelanski in front of the White House with a delay of over 20 minutes.
Conversations in the White HouseJim LO SCALZO/PAP/EPA
– You are not in the position to dictate anything, you do not show respect – said Donald Trump to Wołodymyr Zelanski during a meeting in an oval office. The talks in Washington were to include, among others, partnership agreements on the operation of Ukrainian natural raw materials. The atmosphere of conversations between leaders was nervous. Trump accused Zelnski of, among others A confrontational attitude “which threatens the outbreak of World War III”.
The White House announced that the conference of both leaders was dismissed. “Zełenski is not ready for room,” Trump said after meeting in the Truth Social platform. The contract was not signed, the President of Ukraine left the White House.
Reuters later reported that Wołodymyr Zelanski canceled her visits to the Ukrainian house and at the Hudson Institute in Washington. The agency referred to a representative of the Ukrainian delegation, who came to the US capital to sign an agreement on the access of American companies to Ukrainian mineral raw materials.
The President of Ukraine Zełnski leaves the White HouseJim LO SCALZO/PAP/EPA
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