‘It is not good for both sides’

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy He repeatedly refused Friday night to apologize for his impressive Oval office shock With the president Donald Trump and vice president JD Vance hours before.

“No,” said Zelensky, when Fox News‘Bret Baier asked if he owed Trump an apology, after Trump had accused him of disrespect.

But Zelenskyy said: “This type of dispute is not good for both parties.”

The Ukrainian leader in his televised interview also said that “it will be difficult for us to” defend his country to invade Russian military forces if Trump suspends Help to Ukraine.

“That’s why we are here,” said Zelenskyy. “It will be difficult without your support.”

“Your people help save our people,” he said later.

He expressed his gratitude to Trump and the American people for American aid that was provided so far.

“I am very grateful to the Americans for all their support. You did a lot. I am grateful to President Trump and Congress,” said Zelenskyy.

“It helped us a lot. From the beginning, for three years of large -scale invasion, it helped us survive.”

On the early Thursday at the White House began when Zelenskyy played Vance’s argument that Ukraine could obtain peace with Russia through diplomacy, and the Ukrainian president pointed out how Russian leader Vladimir Putin has repeatedly violated previous agreements.

“He killed our people and did not exchange prisoners,” Zelenskyy said about Putin. “What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you talking? What do you mean?”

Vance criticized Zelenskyy for not thanking Trump in public on Friday, and Trump said Zelenskyy was risking the death of millions of people, and starting “World War II” if he did not reach a peace agreement.

Zelensky shortly after leaving the White House without signing a planned agreement to give the United States access to Rare earth minerals In Ukraine. Zelenskyy wants this agreement to be a Trump precursor to guarantee support for Ukraine if Russia violates a possible peace agreement.

In his Fox News interview, Zelenskyy said he regretted that his dispute with Trump and Vance was televised, and in front of journalists.

“We are grateful and I’m sorry for this. I mean this, we wanted to have strong relationships,” he told Baier.

Pressing if you apologize to Trump, Zelenskyy said: “I think we have to be very open and very honest.”

“And I’m not sure I did something wrong,” Zelenskyy said.

When asked if he believed that his relationship with Trump could be rescued, the Ukrainian leader said: “Yes, of course.”

Shortly before the interview, Trump said Zelenskyy had “exaggerated his hand.”

“He’s looking for something that is not looking,” Trump told journalists outside the White House.

“He’s looking to continue and fight, fight, fight. We are looking to finish death.”

Trump’s message attracted the leaders of European and NATO leaders, who reiterated their support for Ukraine in social networks statements.

Many of them also pointed out that Europe is aware of the most important role that you will probably have to assume to ensure that Ukraine can continue to defend themselves.

“We will appreciate our support for Ukraine so that they can continue fighting the aggressor,” said the high representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and the Kaja Kallas security policy in a publication on the social media site X.

“Today it was clear that the free world needs a new leader. It depends on us, the Europeans, take this challenge,” Kallas wrote.