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Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dodged directly responding if he believed president Donald Trump He supported Ukraine while visiting the White House on Friday.
Zelenskyy is visiting Washington in the midst of negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, and a mineral agreement is expected to sign on Friday that will allow the United States access to Ukraine minerals, in exchange for support that the United States has provided the country since the invasion of Russia in 2022.
When asked if Zelenskyy believed that Trump was on the side of Ukraine, Zelenskyy told the journalists of the Oval office that he believed that the United States was on the side of Ukraine and reiterated the importance of stopping the aggression of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Zelenskyy also emphasized the importance of Europe’s assistance during the conflict with Russia, which led Trump to intervene and affirm that US contributions were more significant than those of Europe. But Zelenskyy went back and said that was not true.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the White House on Friday. (Efrem Lukatsky/The Associated Press)
The exact numbers of financial assistance to Ukraine vary slightly, depending on what is considered help. However, Congress has assigned $ 175 billion since 2022 to help Ukraine, according to the Foreign Relations Council.
Meanwhile, all European assistance to Ukraine between January 2022 and December 2024 totals approximately $ 138.7 billion, the group of German -based experts The Kiel Institute estimates, and the United States contributes $ 119.7 billion in that same framework.
The tensions between Zelenskyy and Trump have increased in recent weeks, since the United States has worked with Ukraine and Russia to advance a peace negotiation. After US officials met with Russian officials in Saudi Arabia on February 18 without Ukraine, Zelenskyy told reporters that “nobody decides anything behind us.”
Trump and Zelenskyy then Barbras exchanged to each otherWith Zelenskyy accusing Trump of advancing in Russian “misinformation” and Trump labeling Zelenskyy as a “dictator” who has failed in his country.
The Prime Minister of Britain, Keir Starmer, visited the White House, on February 27, 2025, to discuss a peace negotiation to end the war in Ukraine. (Carl Court/Pool Photo through AP)
However, Trump did not double that statement.
When asked if he was standing for his statement, he told reporters: “I said that? I can’t believe that I said that. Next question.”
Trump also told reporters while meeting with the United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday that a peace negotiation was in the final stages, but exercised caution for sharing details about a strength of maintenance of peace in the region until an agreement was ended.
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“I think we are very advanced in an agreement,” Trump said. “But we haven’t made a deal yet. So I don’t like talking about the maintenance of peace until we have a deal. I like doing things.”
Trump also said he did not expect Putin to violate any agreement to create peace with Ukraine.
“I don’t think it’s going to violate his word,” Trump said Thursday. “I don’t think I return when we make a deal. I think the deal is vary now.”
