Russia is loving the Oval Workplace spectacle that occurred yesterday with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance. Nonetheless, there may be one distinguished Russian voice that has not been heard but, that of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who, on the time of this writing, has but to touch upon the scenario.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who’s a staunch defender of Putin, was delighted by what he known as the “proper slap down” that Zelenskyy obtained by the hands of Trump and Vance. In the identical submit on X, Medvedev wrote that Trump was proper about Ukraine “gambling with WWIII.”
Russian Overseas Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova mentioned it was a “miracle” Trump and Vance stopped themselves from hitting Zelenskyy throughout the intense change.
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as U.S. Vice President JD Vance reacts on the White Home in Washington, D.C., Feb. 28, 2025. (REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Picture)
UKRAINE AMBASSADOR’S REACTION TO FIERY TRUMP-ZELENSKYY OVAL OFFICE CLASH GOES VIRAL
It’s not simply Russian leaders celebrating; members of the government-run media are additionally reveling within the fracas.
“The Russian media, which is almost exclusively controlled by Putin’s government, is having a field day with what happened today between Zelenskyy and President Trump and JD Vance,” Rebekah Koffler, a strategic army intelligence analyst, former senior official on the Protection Intelligence Company and creator of “Putin’s Playbook,” advised Fox Information Digital.
“Rossiyskaya Gazeta,” the Russian Nationwide Gazette, tore into Zelenskyy, with many headlines gloating in regards to the chief’s spat with Trump and Vance, in addition to his leaving the White Home early, based on Koffler, who translated the headlines for Fox Information Digital.
Moreover, Russian state TV commentator Vladimir Solovyov reportedly introduced a particular present specializing in “Zelenskyy’s suicide in the White House,” based on Reuters.
President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meet within the Oval Workplace of the White Home in Washington, D.C., Feb. 28, 2025. (SAUL LOEB/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
WORLD LEADERS BACK ZELENSKYY FOLLOWING TRUMP, VANCE OVAL OFFICE SPAT
After the tense Oval Workplace assembly, leaders from throughout the globe got here out condemning Trump and Vance’s actions and displaying their help for Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron, who lately met with Trump in DC, expressed help for Ukraine in a submit on X.
“There is an aggressor: Russia. There is a victim: Ukraine. We were right to help Ukraine and sanction Russia three years ago—and to keep doing so,” Macron wrote. “By ‘we,’ I mean the Americans, the Europeans, the Canadians, the Japanese, and many others.”
Whereas U.Ok. Prime Minister Kier Starmer has but to remark publicly, the chief of the U.Ok. Conservative Celebration, Kemi Badenoch, spoke out in help of Ukraine, writing, “We need to remember that the villain is the war criminal President Putin who illegally invaded another sovereign country – Ukraine.”
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, an ardent Trump critic, wrote, “Canada will continue to stand with Ukraine and Ukrainians in achieving a just and lasting peace.”
Tensions between Washington and Kyiv have been clear earlier than any phrases have been exchanged within the Oval Workplace. On Feb. 19, President Trump known as President Zelenskyy “a dictator without elections” in a submit on Fact Social. Nonetheless, when he was requested about his remark throughout a gathering with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Trump appeared to again down saying, “Did I say that?”
The Trump administration’s strategy to Kyiv wildly deviates from that of the Biden administration. Biden made his pro-Ukraine stance clear after the February 2022 invasion, regardless of suggesting in January 2022 {that a} “minor incursion” would lead to lighter penalties. Trump, however, advised the media minutes earlier than the change that he wouldn’t take both Russia or Ukraine’s facet. Reasonably, he was “not aligned with anybody. I’m aligned with the United States of America and for the good of the world.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy leaves the White Home after a heated assembly within the Oval Workplace in Washington, D.C., Feb. 28, 2025. (SAUL LOEB/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
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In an unique interview with Fox Information chief political anchor Bret Baier, Zelenskyy didn’t apologize for the heated change, however he acknowledged that it was “bad for both sides.”
“I just want to be honest, and I just want our partners to understand the situation correctly, and I want to understand everything correctly. That’s about us not to lose our friendship,” Zelenskyy mentioned on “Special Report.”
