Alert – Zelensky to meet Charles tomorrow as he checks in with Starmer and NATO chief speaks out on furious White House Trump bust-up: LIVE updates

Sir Keir Starmer told Volodymyr Zelensky that the cheering crowds outside Downing Street showed ‘you have full backing across the United Kingdom’.

Speaking inside Number 10, the Prime Minister told the Ukrainian president: ‘Let me just say that you’re very, very welcome here in Downing Street.

‘And as you heard from the cheers on the street outside, you have full backing across the United Kingdom, and we stand with you, with Ukraine, for as long as it may take.

‘I hope you heard some of that cheering on the street.

‘That is the people of the United Kingdom coming out to demonstrate how much they support you, how much they support Ukraine, and our absolute determination to stand with you – unwavering determination – and to achieve what we both want to achieve, which is a lasting peace.

‘A lasting peace for Ukraine based on sovereignty and security for Ukraine – so important for Ukraine, so important for Europe and so important for the United Kingdom.

‘So I’m much looking forward to our discussions here this afternoon – thank you very much for making the time to come.’

President Zelensky and Sir Keir Starmer shook hands as they sat down for a meeting inside Number 10.

There was certainly a sense of warmth between the two leaders – with the pair also embracing outside Downing Street.

Sir Keir and Zelensky exchanged a few words before the cameras were quickly ushered out.

The rest of the meeting will now take place behind closed doors.

Sir Keir Starmer told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky he has ‘full backing across the United Kingdom’ as the pair met inside Downing Street.

He added that the country will ‘stand with Ukraine for as long as it may take.

Zelensky thanked Sir Keir for his support, and thanked King Charles III for accepting a meeting with him tomorrow.

‘We are happy to have such partners and such friends,’ he says.

Volodymyr Zelensky has reunited with Keir Starmer as he travels to London for crunch talks with EU leaders – just a day after a savage showdown with Donald Trump.

The Ukrainian President’s furious bust-up with the US President has sent diplomatic ripples across the world – with warnings that the surreal scene in the Oval Office could spell the end of Nato and Trump could halt military aid to Ukraine as early as today.

Now the Prime Minister is hoping to act as a bridge between the American premier and his European counterparts after a successful flattery campaign on Thursday.

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The Ukrainian president has arrived outside 10 Downing Street for his meeting with the Prime Minister.

Sir Keir Starmer warmly embraced Zelensky as they met each other outside the entrance to Number 10 and posed for pictures.

As a reminder, the meeting comes less than 24 hours after Zelensky’s explosive meeting with Donald Trump. Sir Keir also himself met the US president on Thursday.

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President Donald Trump has been seen arriving at his golf club in Palm Beach, Florida, after his heated meeting with Zelensky last night.

Donald Trump’s meeting with President Zelensky today erupted into an unprecedented blistering row.

Things started to go off the rails about 40 minutes in when the Ukrainian president said he had signed deals with Putin, but still could not trust the ‘killer’ leader.

Tempers flared inside the Oval Office with Vice President J.D. Vance also weighing in to give Zelensky a dressing down.

Here takes a look at the most explosive quotes from the showdown now threatening to overshadow talks for a ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war.

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Taking to Twitter after the breakdown of the meeting between the US and Ukrainian presidents, former minister Robert Jenrick said: ‘I’m sickened by that degrading spectacle.

‘And to think the bust of Winston Churchill was in the same room as it unfolded. He would be turning in his grave if he saw that happen.

‘Ukraine’s people, led by President Zelenskyy, have fought bravely to hold off Putin over the last three years with US and European support.

Zelenskyy has shown sincere gratitude for the support offered by his partners. We salute him and the courageous Ukrainians as they fight for freedom against Russian imperialism.

‘Countries can and do disagree, but the West must show a united front to our enemies.’

NATO chief Mark Rutte has said he told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that he needs to find a way to restore his relationship with President Donald Trump after Friday’s White House clash.

‘It is important that President Zelensky finds a way to restore his relationship with the American President and with the senior American leadership team,’ Rutte told the BBC on Saturday, commenting on a call he had with Zelensky on Friday.

He described the meeting at the White House as ‘unfortunate’.

Rutte’s dire warning to the war-time president comes as Zelensky duked it out with Trump and Vice President JD Vance in the Oval Office over the conditions of a possible ceasefire with Russia.

Tempers flared on all sides, with Trump threatening to abandon Ukraine completely if Zelensky didn’t agree to his peace terms.

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MPs across the House of Commons have called for the UK and its European allies to seize the nearly 300 billion US dollars of frozen Russian assets across the continent, after the bruising encounter in the White House.

The leaders of several all-party parliamentary groups (APPGs), aimed at raising awareness about corruption, sanctions and Ukraine, have urged ministers to spend the frozen Russian money on rebuilding Ukraine.

Veteran Tory former minister Sir Iain Duncan Smith, chairman of the APPG on Magnitsky Sanctions and Reparation, said: ‘It is time to take action and seize this money. Ukraine needs financial support to enable it to re-equip its forces and to repair the appalling damage caused by Russia.

‘Having recently returned from Ukraine I have seen hospitals deliberately attacked by Russia as well as civilian homes. It is long overdue that we take action and put this money to good use in support of Ukraine.’

Labour MP Joe Powell, chairman of the APPG on Anti-Corruption, said Europe was now at a ‘crisis point’ as he called for the money to be seized, adding: ‘This would not only free up much needed resources for Ukraine right now, but would also send a clear message to Russia that aggression doesn’t pay, and these funds are not being returned. It’s time to use this leverage effectively.’

Alex Sobel, Labour chairman of the APPG on Ukraine, said: ‘It is imperative we move as quickly as possible to legislate to mobilise frozen Russian assets for Ukraine. It is right that the aggressor pays for the unbelievable damage they have caused.’

An anti-Putin protest is being held in Berlin this afternoon ahead of a European summit to discuss peace in Ukraine in the UK tomorrow.

Protesters gathered in front of the Brandenburg Gate and held signs and banners calling for an end to the war.

Severl held signs which read: ‘Russians against Putin’.

Also in attendance was Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

As the meeting in Washington between two state leaders descended into chaos, it shocked and horrified the world.

White House sources insist the display of men shouting over one another was not staged or pre-planned, and that it occurred in the spur of the moment.

But even so, as former presenter on the US’s The Apprentice, Trump still had the cameras in mind.

‘This is going to be great television, I will say that,’ he said as the press conference abruptly ended.

An Oval Office meeting between Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump descended into chaos after a simple nine-word response triggered fury on the American benches.

The scandalous bust-up has sparked fierce tensions across the globe after the US leader led an unprecedented humiliation of the war-time premier alongside attack dog VP JD Vance, later declaring that his counterpart was ‘not ready for peace’.

He accused Zelensky of ‘gambling with World War Three’ as they abandoned plans to sign a minerals deal which would have given further US support in exchange for access to Ukraine’s natural resources.

The chat in front of the American media seemed genial at first as the pair began to size each other up – with Trump happily joking with reporters as they began to get underway.

But the talks soon turned sour after a seemingly-innocuous moment where Zelensky spoke earnestly to JD Vance, with Trump quietly nodding along behind him.

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Russia said on Saturday that it shot down three Ukrainian drones that targeted part of the infrastructure of the TurkStream gas pipeline, which transports Russian gas across the Black Sea to Turkey and Europe.

The Russian defense ministry said the drones aimed to strike a compressor station in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region, in the latest of a series of similar attacks this year. Its claims could not be independently confirmed, and there was no immediate comment from Ukraine.

Before its troops moved into Ukraine, Russia supplied nearly 40% of the European Union’s pipeline natural gas. Most of these flows have since halted, with exports from Norway and the U.S. filling the gap.

The TurkStream pipeline continues to send gas to EU member Hungary, as well as Turkey and Serbia.

NATO chief Mark Rutte said on Saturday he told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that he needs to find a way to restore his relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump after Friday’s clash during a White House meeting.

‘It is important that President Zelenskiy finds a way to restore his relationship with the American President and with the senior American leadership team,’ Rutte told the BBC, commenting on a call he had with Zelenskiy on Friday.

He described the meeting at the White House as ‘unfortunate’.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has arrived in London for meetings with Prime Minister Keir Starmer and European allies, his spokesman said on Saturday, a day after his clash with US President Donald Trump.

‘We are in London,’ spokesman Sergiy Nykyforov told AFP, adding that Zelensky would meet Starmer at 1715 GMT on Saturday and then King Charles III and a group of European allies on Sunday.

Dariia Voloshyna, from Kharkiv, in northeastern Ukraine said she was very proud of how Mr Zelensky stood up for Ukrainians during the fractious meeting and was shocked to hear vice president JD Vance call the Ukrainian leader ‘disrespectful’.

During the heated exchange in the Oval office on Friday, Mr Trump also accused Mr Zelensky of ‘gambling with World War Three’ and told him that he should be ‘thankful’ to the US.

Ms Voloshyna, 25, said she was shaking while watching the exchange and could not believe what she was hearing.

‘I’m still very shocked right now, and re-watching it this morning was very emotional for me,’ Ms Voloshyna said.

‘I’m shaking because I couldn’t imagine this is all true, and this is what the president of America and vice president, were saying to our president.

‘I am very proud Zelensky is our president, and that he stands for his people, for us, for Ukrainians, and he handled it very well.’

Ms Voloshyna was finishing her masters degree at Kharkiv National University when Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.

‘We experienced horrible, horrible days when there were Russian jets bombing us from the air and explosions were every day,’ she said.

‘In the second week of the full scale invasion, my university was bombed.’

The UK’s Ministry of Defence has said Russia has failed to gain air superiority over Ukraine.

In a post on Twitter, a spokesperson said: ‘After 3 years of conflict, Russia’s Aerospace Forces, despite technological and numerical advantage, have failed to gain air superiority in Ukraine.

‘Russia has resorted to using their tactical level aviation – such as SU-34 aircraft – as airborne artillery.’

But the spokesperson added that the air situation for Ukraine is ‘increasingly busy, complex and challenging.’

They went on to praise Ukraine’s recent military strikes, stating it had damaged multiple oil refineries and missile sites.’

Tyson Fury sent Donald Trump a fiery message of support Friday after the US president’s disastrous White House press conference with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The peace talks between Ukraine and Russia came to a screeching halt in Washington DC when Trump kicked Zelensky out of the White House following a blistering shouting match between the two leaders.

The tense war of words that played out inside the Oval Office Friday quickly went off the rails when Trump took offense of how Zelensky treated his vice president JD Vance in front of the cameras.

And British boxer Fury appeared to relish Trump’s outburst, capturing the moment on his Instagram story.

Germany’s foreign minister said Saturday the ‘unspeakable’ row between US President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House resembled a ‘bad dream’ as Kyiv’s European allies rallied to its side.

‘Yesterday evening underlined that a new age of infamy has begun,’ Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said in a televised statement.

Earlier we brought news that Putin’s Kremlin spokesperson had blasted Zelensky’s meeting with Trump as a ‘complete failure’.

Her statement in full is now available.

‘The visit of the head of the neo-Nazi regime, V. Zelensky, to Washington on February 28 is a complete political and diplomatic failure of the Kyiv regime,’ Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.

‘With his outrageously boorish behaviour during his stay in Washington, Zelensky confirmed that he is the most dangerous threat to the world community as an irresponsible warmonger,’ Zakharova said.

A Ukrainian hospital has been hit by a Russian kamikaze drone strike just hours after Volodymyr Zelensky was banished from the White House following a row with US President Donald Trump.

A Russian strike on a medical facility triggered a fire late on Friday in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city and also hit several other targets, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said.

One child was injured in the attack on the hospital.

He said drones also hit an area near a filling station and a building close to a high-rise apartment building.

Regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said all the strikes were in central districts of the city and emergency crews were working at the different sites.

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French President Emmanuel Macron has said if someone is gambling with World War III, it is not President Zelensky but his Russian counterpart.

Macron reacted to Friday’s heated exchange between US President Donald Trump and Zelensky in the Oval Office, during which Trump accused Zelensky of ‘gambling with World War III.’

‘If anyone is gambling with World War III, his name is Vladimir Putin,’ Macron told Portugal’s RTP news channel during a visit to Lisbon ahead of Sunday’s Ukraine summit of European leaders in London.

Macron said he still hopes that the United States will remain committed to the defense of democracy.

‘My hope is that the United States of America will continue to stand by its history and its principles,’ he said. ‘Whenever we have had major conflicts, the United States of America has been on the right side of history and freedom.’

The wreckage after a series of drone attacks by Russia on Ukrainian towns and cities has been pictured this morning.

Around 150 drones crossed into Ukranian territory, of which just over 100 were successfully destroyed.

Buildings damaged included a crowded hospital.

In Kharkiv, Russian forces carried out nine attacks in different areas of the city, causing substantial damage (pictured).

The UK must continue to work with both the US and Ukraine, Kemi Badenoch insisted, after a spat between the two countries’ leaders erupted in public.

The Conservative leader was asked if the offer of a second state visit to the UK for Mr Trump should be rescinded.

Speaking during her first visit to Northern Ireland as Conservative leader, Mrs Badenoch told broadcasters: ‘The state visit is from the King. He is the head of state and I think that is a matter for the royal family.’

She added: ‘We need to make sure that we continue to work with both our allies, both Ukraine and the US. We may disagree with the US on what happened yesterday but what is important now is how we move on from what happened yesterday.

‘That means focusing on the summit that the Prime Minister is going to be having tomorrow with European leaders.’

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, commenting on Saturday on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Washington, said he rejects peace and is obsessed with the continuation of war.

Zelensky’s visit to Washington is ‘a complete diplomatic failure of Kyiv’, Zakharova said.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has weighed in on Friday’s bust up between Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump.

Writing on X this morning, the Clacton MP, who is a friend of the US president, said the spat was ‘regrettable’, but was optimistic it did not spell the ‘end of the story’.

A body language expert described President Trump as an ‘alpha male’ who was in a state of ‘aggressive arousal’ during his Oval Office spat with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Judi James decoded the historic showdown as the two world leaders engaged in a tense war of words in front of cameras on Friday – and Vice President JD Vance played the ‘wingman.’

Speaking with DailyMail.com on Friday following the press conference, James said the encounter revealed ‘alpha male Trump in [a] state of aggressive arousal’.

James said the commander-in-chief had was asserting his authority over the situation. 

She also waded in on Vance arguing with Zelensky, saying he had acted ‘like the grain of sand that irritates the oyster to produce the pearl’.

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Three people have been killed in a Ukrainian attack on a Russian-occupied part of Kherson region in southern Ukraine, Russian-installed governor Vladimir Saldo said on Saturday.

Two of them were killed on a road between the villages of Nova Maiachka and Obryvka, while the third was killed in the town of Oleshky, Saldo said via his channel on Telegram.

Five other people were injured of varying degrees of severity, Saldo said.

Sir Keir Starmer and Volodymyr Zelensky will meet in Downing Street on Saturday afternoon, No 10 has said, after the Ukrainian President arrived in the UK by plane.

This morning former foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt warned that the Nato could be at risk of losing the US if it does not feel Europe is ‘pulling its weight’.

Mr Hunt told the Today programme: ‘From Europe’s point of view there is an even bigger priority than the future of Ukraine, which is the future of Nato. And there is a simple message from what happened yesterday and that is that we can’t take that for granted.

‘The 2.5 per cent of GDP increase in defence spending this week is extremely welcome from Keir Starmer but it won’t be enough and we need all European Nato countries to be spending much closer to the 3.4 per cent of GDP that America is spending before America feels that Europe is pulling its weight.

‘And if we don’t do that, if America feels unfairly treated, we can see the fireworks and the sort of things that we’ll be putting at risk. So right now that is a very, very big priority behind the scenes – to make sure that America remains anchored in the Western alliance.’

President Zelensky has issued a new statement this morning following yesterday’s drama, as he bids to shore up global support.

Posting on Twitter, he said: ‘We are very grateful to the United States for all the support. I’m thankful to President Trump, Congress for their bipartisan support, and American people. Ukrainians have always appreciated this support, especially during these three years of full-scale invasion.

‘America’s help has been vital in helping us survive, and I want to acknowledge that. Despite the tough dialogue, we remain strategic partners. But we need to be honest and direct with each other to truly understand our shared goals.’

He added that Trump’s support is ‘crucial’ to fighting Russia, continuing: ‘The Russians are killing us. Russia is the enemy, and that’s the reality we face. Ukraine wants peace, but it must be a just and lasting peace.’

He ended his statement by issuing a fresh thank you to America: ‘American people helped save our people. Humans and human rights come first. We’re truly thankful. We want only strong relations with America, and I really hope we will have them.’

Volodymyr Zelensky has touched down in the UK following a brutal bust-up with Donald Trump as he continues to insist he will not apologise to the American President – but Ukraine’s relationship with the US can still be saved.

World leaders have been warned the surreal scene in the Oval Office could spell the end of Nato – and Trump could halt military aid to Ukraine as early as today.

The American leader yesterday led an unprecedented humiliation of the war-time premier alongside attack dog VP JD Vance, later declaring that his counterpart was ‘not ready for peace’.

He accused Zelensky of ‘gambling with World War Three’ as they abandoned plans to sign a minerals deal which would have given further US support in exchange for access to Ukraine’s natural resources.

Last night Sir Keir talked with both leaders following the clash – just a day after he met with Trump to lavish praise on the US president’s efforts to secure a peace deal.

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Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday that Russia is ready for flexibility in talks on Ukraine, but only in accordance with the Russian constitution and realities on the ground, state news agency RIA Novosti reported.

Medvedev said Russia was ready to discuss a settlement of the Ukrainian crisis, but only with those ‘who are ready to communicate’.

Gloating Russians dubbed yesterday’s meetinga ‘public political execution’ and a ‘verbal brawl’ where ‘Zelensky was shown the door’ as they delight while the West falls into chaos.

President Zelensky has touched down on UK soil just hours after the furious scenes in the Oval Office on Friday.

Sir Keir’s crunch talks at Downing Street on Sunday will see European leaders gear up efforts to police a future Ukraine peace deal.

The Prime Minister believes a deal will have to involve US military assets providing surveillance, intelligence and potentially warplanes giving air cover to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin from launching another bid to conquer his neighbour.

But hopes for unity between European nations and the US on Ukraine’s future were shattered by the Friday clash between Trump and Zelensky.

The Ukrainian president is believed to have landed in the UK ahead of a summit of European leaders hosted by Sir Keir Starmer today.

In another blow to Ukraine, Moscow on Saturday said it had seized two more villages in the east of the country as Kyiv officials said Russian strikes had killed one person and wounded 19.

The Russian defence ministry said its forces had captured Sudne and Burlatske in the south of the eastern Donetsk region.

They lie near the town of Velyka Novossilka which was seized by the Russian army at the end of January.

The Ukrainian air force said Russia had launched 154 drones overnight, of which 103 were downed and 51 disappeared from the radar without causing damage or casualties.

Volodymyr Zelensky has defended his decision not to wear a suit in the Oval Office after the move was branded ‘disrespectful’ by a White House reporter during his meeting with Donald Trump.

In a fiery exchange, Brian Glenn, Chief White House Correspondent for Real America’s Voice, asked Zelensky: ‘Why don’t you wear a suit? You’re at the highest level in this country’s office, why don’t you wear a suit?’

Responding to the criticism, the Ukrainian leader, who is often seen wearing casual combat clothes since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, said he faced more pressing problems with the war in Europe.

He added that he ‘will wear a suit after this war will finish’ and it would be ‘maybe something like yours, maybe something better’.

After yesterday’s furious meeting, President Trump released a statement accusing Ukraine of ‘disrespecting’ America.

In a post on his social media platform Truth Social he said: ‘We had a very meaningful meeting in the White House today. Much was learned that could never be understood without conversation under such fire and pressure.

‘It’s amazing what comes out through emotion, and I have determined that President Zelenskyy is not ready for Peace if America is involved, because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations.

‘I don’t want advantage, I want PEACE. He disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office. He can come back when he is ready for Peace.’

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky refused to apologize and said he wants Donald Trump to be ‘more on our side’ during his first major interview since a disaster White House press conference with Trump and JD Vance.

The tense war of words played out inside the Oval Office Friday and quickly went off the rails when Trump took offense of how Zelensky treated his vice president JD Vance in front of the cameras.

Zelensky, speaking to Fox News, was asked point blank if he owed Trump an apology and twice filibustered before refusing and instead attempting to be gracious and added ‘I’m not sure we did something bad.’

‘We’re thankful to Americans for all your support, you did a lot, I’m thankful to President Trump and Congress’ bipartisan support,’ Zelensky said.

‘You helped us a lot from the very beginning, you helped us to survive. We are strategic partners.’

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The scenes in the White House on Friday delighted officials in Moscow who saw it as a final breakdown in relations between Washington and the Ukrainian leader.

But many Ukrainians seemed unfazed by the confrontation, saying the Ukrainian leader had stood up for their country’s dignity and interests by firmly maintaining his stance in the face of chiding from some of the world’s most powerful men.

Nataliia Serhiienko, 67, a retiree in Kyiv, said Ukrainians approve of their president’s performance in Washington, ‘because Zelensky fought like a lion’.

‘They had a heated meeting, a very heated conversation,’ she said, but Mr Zelensky ‘was defending Ukraine’s interests.’

Kyiv resident Artem Vasyliev, 37, added he had seen ‘complete disrespect’ from the US in the Oval Office exchange, despite the fact that Ukraine ‘was the first country that stood up to Russia’.

‘We are striving for democracy, and we are met with total disrespect, towards our warriors, our soldiers and the people of our country,’ said Mr Vasyliev, a native of Russian-occupied Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.

As Friday’s White House meeting degenerated, Vance asked Zelensky: ‘Have you said ‘thank you’ once this entire time… in this entire meeting?’

A planned press conference with Trump and Zelensky was then cancelled and Zelensky was asked to leave.

Despite the clash, Zelensky later told Fox News he believed that ‘of course’ relations with the US could be repaired.

But he refused to apologise, saying: ‘I’m not sure that we did something bad.’

He did, however, say he wished the exchange had not taken place in front of reporters.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio later on CNN called for Zelensky to ‘apologise for wasting our time.’

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked dozens of allies on social media on Saturday, a day after US President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance accused him of not being sufficiently grateful.

Zelensky on X wrote the words ‘Thank you for your support’ in individual replies to around 30 messages of support from European leaders after his heated clash with the new US administration in the White House.

Despite the confrontation, Zelensky earlier thanked Trump, the US Congress and the American people for their support and for his visit.

‘Ukraine needs just and lasting peace, and we are working exactly for that,’ he wrote.

Marco Rubio said that Volodymyr Zelensky should apologize to Donald Trump and cast doubts on whether the Ukrainian president really wants peace after their disaster meeting.

The tense war of words played out inside the Oval Office Friday and quickly went off the rails when Trump took offense of how Zelensky treated his vice president JD Vance in front of the cameras.

In an effort to shift the blame away from Trump and Vance, whose aggression has provoked an international outcry in many of the US’s closest allies, the Secretary of State hinted that Zelensky owes the president an apology and found his behavior leading up to the Oval Office blowout unacceptable.

‘You guys only saw the end, you don’t see all the things that led up to this. The president’s been very clear on this, he campaigned on this. He thinks this war should have never started and I agree that had he been president it never would have happened,’ Rubio stated.

‘Now here we are, he’s trying to bring an end to this conflict, we’ve explained very clearly what our plan is here: we want to get the Russians to a negotiating table, we want to explore whether peace is possible,’ he added.

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The extraordinary Oval Office scene on Friday saw the years-long US policy of massive support for Ukraine’s fight against Russian invasion collapse in a shouting match.

The row saw European leaders scramble to voice support for Ukraine after Zelensky was made to leave the White House early and without signing a minerals-sharing deal seen as vital to an eventual US-brokered truce.

During the clash, played out in front of US and international media, Trump and Vice President JD Vance shouted at Zelensky, accusing him of not being ‘thankful’ and refusing to accept their proposed truce terms.

‘You don’t have the cards right now,’ Trump said. ‘You’re either going to make a deal or we’re out, and if we’re out, you’ll fight it out and I don’t think it’s going to be pretty.’

Zelensky departed shortly after, with Trump posting on social media that ‘he can come back when he is ready for peace.’

US media reported that Zelensky had been told to leave by senior Trump officials.

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