Democratic lawmakers rushed to defend Volodymyr Zelenskyy after the Ukrainian leader was publicly berated by Donald Trump in a disastrous Oval Office meeting.

The US president accused Zelenskyy of “gambling with world war three” while his vice-president, JD Vance, called the Ukrainian leader “disrespectful”, before cutting short talks aimed at kicking off the process of ending Kyiv’s three-year war with Russia.

Zelenskyy abruptly left the White House soon after without signing a rare critical minerals deal with the US that Trump has said is the first step toward a ceasefire agreement that he is seeking to broker between Russia and Ukraine.

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  • AxiomShell@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    He still has to recover from “peace in 24h” and all those minerals he won’t be getting…

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      His followers don’t care.

      I don’t know how to describe what’s going on to people who aren’t here in America, because I don’t get it either. But they don’t care. They aren’t just stupid, they’re also mean spirited and heartless.