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Russia loves the Oval Office show that took place yesterday with the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, president Donald Trump and vice president JD Vance. However, there is a prominent Russian voice that has not yet been heard, that of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who, at the time of this writing, has not yet commented on the situation.
The former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, who is a firm defender of Putin, was delighted with what he called the “proper slap” that Zelenskyy received at the hands of Trump and Vance. In the same publication about X, Medvedev wrote that Trump was right about Ukraine “gambling with World War II”.
The spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said it was a “miracle” that Trump and Vance prevented them from hitting Zelenskyy during the intense exchange.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, meets with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, when the US vice president JD Vance reacts in the White House in Washington, DC, on February 28, 2025. (Reuters/Brian Snyder/File Photo)
It is not alone Russian leaders celebrating; The members of the media administered by the Government also delight in the failures.
“The Russian media, which is almost exclusively controlled by the Putin government, is having a field day with what happened today between Zelenskyy and President Trump and JD Vance,” Rebekah Koffler, strategic military intelligence analyst, former senior official of the Defense Intelligence Agency and author of “Putin’s Playbook,” said Fox News Digital.
“Rossiyskaya Gazeta”, the National Gazette of Russia, incursion in Zelenskyy, with many headlines gloating on the leader’s dispute with Trump and Vance, as well as leaving the White House early, according to Koffler, who translated the Fox News Digital holders.
In addition, Russian state television commentator Vladimir Solovyov announced a special program focused on “Zelenskyy’s suicide in the White House,” according to Reuters.
President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meet at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 28, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP through Getty Images)
The world leaders of Zellenskyy return after Trump, Vance Oval Office Spat
After the tense oval office meeting, leaders around the world came out condemning the actions of Trump and Vance and Showing your support to Ukraine. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, who recently met with Trump in DC, expressed his support for Ukraine in a publication on X.
“There is an aggressor: Russia. There is a victim: Ukraine. We were right to help Ukraine and punish Russia three years ago, and continue doing it,” Macron wrote. “For ‘we’, I mean Americans, Europeans, Canadians, Japanese and many others.”
Although the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Kier Starmer, has not yet commented publicly, the leader of the United Kingdom Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, spoke in support of Ukraine, writing: “We need to remember that the villain is the criminal president of War, Putin, who illegally invaded another sovereign country: Ukraine.”
The Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, a Trump’s burning critic, wrote: “Canada will continue with Ukraine and Ukraine to achieve a fair and lasting peace.”
The tensions between Washington and Kyiv were clear before words were exchanged in the oval office. On February 19, President Trump called President Zelenskyy “a dictator without elections” in a publication about Truth Social. However, when asked about his comment during a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Trump seemed to go back saying: “I said that?”
The Trump administration approach for Kyiv is wildly diverted from that of the Biden administration. Biden made clear its pro-Ukraine position after the invasion of February 2022, despite suggesting in January 2022 that a “minor incursion” would result in lighter consequences. Trump, on the other hand, told the media before the exchange that he would not take the side of Russia or Ukraine. Rather, he “was not aligned with anyone. I am aligned with the United States of America and for the good of the world.”
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, leaves the White House after a heated meeting at the Oval office in Washington, DC, on February 28, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP through Getty Images)
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In a Exclusive interview With Fox News political presenter, Bret Baier, Zelenskyy did not apologize for the heated exchange, but acknowledged that it was “bad for both parties.”
“I just want to be honest, and I just want our partners to understand the situation correctly, and I want to understand everything correctly. It’s about not losing our friendship,” Zelenskyy said in “Special Report.”
