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’s 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 state of affairs.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who’s a staunch defender of Putin, was delighted by what he referred to as the “correct slap down” that Zelenskyy acquired by the hands of Trump and Vance. In the identical put up on X, Medvedev wrote that Trump was proper about Ukraine “playing with WWIII.”
Russian International Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova stated it was a “miracle” Trump and Vance stopped themselves from hitting Zelenskyy through the intense trade.
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 nearly solely managed by Putin’s authorities, is having a discipline day with what occurred right now between Zelenskyy and President Trump and JD Vance,” Rebekah Koffler, a strategic navy intelligence analyst, former senior official on the Protection Intelligence Company and creator of “Putin’s Playbook,” informed 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, in keeping with 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 within the White Home,” in keeping with 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 through Getty Pictures)
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 assist for Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron, who lately met with Trump in DC, expressed assist for Ukraine in a put up on X.
“There’s an aggressor: Russia. There’s a sufferer: Ukraine. We have been proper to assist Ukraine and sanction Russia three years in the past—and to maintain doing so,” Macron wrote. “By ‘we,’ I imply the Individuals, the Europeans, the Canadians, the Japanese, and plenty of others.”
Whereas U.Okay. Prime Minister Kier Starmer has but to remark publicly, the chief of the U.Okay. Conservative Social gathering, Kemi Badenoch, spoke out in assist of Ukraine, writing, “We have to do not forget that the villain is the struggle legal President Putin who illegally invaded one other sovereign nation – Ukraine.”
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, an ardent Trump critic, wrote, “Canada will proceed to face with Ukraine and Ukrainians in attaining a simply 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 referred to as President Zelenskyy “a dictator with out elections” in a put up on Reality 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 end in lighter penalties. Trump, then again, informed the media minutes earlier than the trade that he wouldn’t take both Russia or Ukraine’s aspect. Slightly, he was “not aligned with anyone. I am aligned with the USA of America and for the great 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 through Getty Pictures)
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In an unique interview with Fox Information chief political anchor Bret Baier, Zelenskyy didn’t apologize for the heated trade, however he acknowledged that it was “dangerous for each side.”
“I simply wish to be sincere, and I simply need our companions to know the state of affairs accurately, and I wish to perceive every thing accurately. That is about us to not lose our friendship,” Zelenskyy stated on “Particular Report.”
