Ukraine Russia war latest: Zelensky hits back in first TV interview after fiery White House clash with Trump

Now we have some extra response to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s disastrous encounter with US chief Donald Trump final evening.

Ukrainian opposition chief Kira Rudik tells The Impartial that Mr Trump is overestimating his affect over Vladimir Putin and that Ukraine can not settle for it. They want critical safety ensures, she says.

She provides that Mr Zelensky’s rebuttals within the White Home confirmed how Ukraine “stands as much as bullies”

“I feel that our president was underneath plenty of stress,” she says. “I simply hope that when he was getting the braveness to face as much as Donald Trump and his statements, he knew that the Ukrainian folks and his nation have been behind him.

“That is how we stand as much as bullies. We have to guarantee that our nationwide curiosity is correctly offered.”

She provides that she believes Mr Trump is misguided in considering he has sufficient affect on Vladimir Putin to cease the Russian chief utilizing a ceasefire deal to get better his forces and assault Ukraine once more. “It won’t, and we don’t settle for it,” she says.

The chief of the Holos celebration, the nation’s fifth-largest celebration and in league with the British Liberal Democrats, says: “Now we have been on this conflict since 2014. There have been many alternative presidents within the White Home whereas Ukrainian folks have been dying time and again.

“Most of all, we wish this to cease. However we have to guarantee that it would truly cease.”

We convey you some response under to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s disastrous assembly with US chief Donald Trump final evening.

Sir Invoice Browder, previously the biggest overseas investor in Russia earlier than being kicked in another country by Vladimir Putin, has claimed that Mr Trump intentionally “blew up” his assembly with Mr Zelensky to save lots of face after realising that the Russian chief is just not critical a few peace deal.

“It’s been apparent for weeks that Putin has little interest in a peace deal,” Sir Invoice tells The Impartial. “The best manner for Trump to save lots of face from his promise to finish the conflict is to explode his assembly with Zelensky after which blame him for the breakdown in negotiations.

“That’s precisely what occurred yesterday. Now the onus is on the UK and the EU to assist Ukraine as a result of the US will again out for certain.”

Putin has prompt he’s open to peace talks however has nonetheless continued with maximalist calls for that undermine any probability of a believable deal. They embrace no safety ensures for Ukraine and forcing Kyiv to signal away swathes of land Russia doesn’t even occupy.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has implored the world to not neglect about Ukraine after a heated change with US chief Donald Trump within the White Home final evening.

In a message on Telegram, Mr Zelensky posted a video of a gathering in Washington with Ukrainian residents.

Beneath the video, he wrote: “It is rather vital for us that Ukraine is heard and that nobody forgets about it, neither throughout the conflict nor after.

“It will be significant for folks in Ukraine to know that they aren’t alone, that their pursuits are represented in each nation, in each nook of the world.

“Thanks to your assist on this tough time, for all of your efforts for the sake of Ukraine and Ukrainians and to your assist – not solely diplomatic and monetary, but additionally political and prayerful.”

Ukrainian navy chief Oleksandr Syrskyi has said that the nation has “power in unity” following US president Donald Trump’s assault on president Volodymyr Zelensky final evening.

“Armed Forces are with Ukraine, with the folks, with the Supreme Commander-in-Chief,” he mentioned, referring to Mr Zelensky.

“Our power is in unity We proceed to destroy the occupier, bringing Victory nearer. Glory to Ukraine!”

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has retweeted practically three dozen messages of assist from European and world leaders within the 12 hours since US president Donald Trump and vice chairman JD Vance publicly chastised him in entrance of cameras within the White Home.

Mr Zelensky often points prolonged statements and updates on X however has responded to all 33 messages with the identical line: “Thanks to your assist.”

The complete record of nations and leaders that Mr Zelensky has retweeted are as follows: Poland, Spain, Lithuania, Moldova, Latvia (twice), Czech Republic (PM and President), Norway, Germany (ingoing and outgoing chancellor), Sweden, Portugal, European Parliament president, European Union fee chief, EU council president, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Eire (twice), Estonia, Finland, Croatia, Denmark, Romania, Austria (twice), Canada, Belgium, Slovenia, New Zealand.

Some, similar to the 2 EU leaders, wrote their messages of assist in Ukrainian.

A spokesperson for Sir Keir Starmer has additionally issued an announcement highlighting the UK’s “unwavering assist” for Ukraine, although the prime minister has not written something on X.

Russian officers are utilizing Mr Trump’s speaking factors on the Oval Workplace spat to berate the Ukrainian president.

“Donald Trump is correct: Kyiv regime is ‘playing with World Warfare III,’” mentioned Dmitry Medvedev, a high official in Putin’s authorities.

Kirill Dmitriev, the pinnacle of the Russian Direct Funding Fund, referred to as the Trump-Zelensky assembly “historic”.

In the course of the heated change the US president appeared to attract false equivalence within the conflict, claiming he was standing “for each Ukraine and Russia”.

“I am aligned with the US, and for the great of the world, I am aligned with the world, and I wish to get this factor over with,” Mr Trump mentioned.

Russian overseas ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova chided Mr Zelensky, saying he was “biting the hand that feeds him”.

US president Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted that Russian president Vladimir Putin wouldn’t violate a ceasefire deal.

“I do not suppose so. I feel when we now have a deal, it may be the deal…I’ve identified him for a very long time now. I do not imagine he will violate his phrase,” the American president mentioned on the Oval Workplace on Thursday, talking alongside British prime minister Sir Keir Starmer.

Nonetheless, on Friday, throughout Mr Trump’s heated change with the Ukrainian president, Mr Zelensky raised questions on the effectiveness of a brand new ceasefire deal as referred to as for by the American president.

“You recognize that we now have conversations with him, plenty of dialog, many bilateral dialog, and we signed with him.. In 2019 I signed with him, the [ceasefire] deal, I signed with him, Macron and Merkel, we signed,” the Ukrainian president reiterated.

“However after that, he broke the ceasefire. He killed our folks and he did not change prisoners. We signed the change of prisoners, however he did not do it,” Mr Zelensky mentioned.