Ukraine-US relations at record low following Zelenskyy-Trump meeting

Jake Paulboxer

This isn’t attacking. This is called being a MAN.”

Jake Paul, a boxer, influencer and alleged crypto scammer who has been a booster of Donald Trump, said of the televised shouting match against a head of state

This is why we think that the appetite of the aggressors will just grow."

She added

Kira Rudikukrainian MP

When Putin shows absolutely zero signs of ending the war.. the illusion that the White House has (with its) willingness to negotiate with the aggressor, is showing Russia and other dictatorships they can do whatever they want and have a chance to get away with it."

Ukrainian MP Kira Rudik told Newsweek

Emmanuel Macronfrench president

If anyone is gambling with World War III, his name is Vladimir Putin."

French President Emmanuel Macron told Portuguese media

I respect [the] president and I respect [the] American people, and … I think that we have to be very open and very honest,

Zelenskyy told Baier

Karl Roverepublican strategist

It is going to be incredibly hard to walk back from the kind of animosity we saw in that room today and to walk back some of those statements,

Republican strategist Karl Rove told Fox News

Adam Kinzingerformer GOP Representative

I hate to say this … but the United States right now is not the good guys in this,

said Adam Kinzinger, the former Republican congressman from Illinois who once served on a House committee that investigated Trump supporters’ attack on the US Capitol in early 2021

Clearly it very difficult to do an economic deal with a leader that doesn’t want to do a peace deal,

Bessent told Bloomberg

It is bewildering to see Mr Trump’s allies defending this debacle as some show of American strength,

the conservative-leaning Wall Street Journal editorial board said on Saturday, noting

Millions of American hearts swelled with overflowing pride today to watch President Trump put Zelenskyy in his place,

Miller said, without elaborating on what public opinion information he had to justify that belief

For a former comedian used to the cameras, it was strange that Zelensky got the script wrong.”

Foreign Policy’s Ravi Agrawal wrote

The three-year wartime partnership between Washington and Kyiv was shattered,

the paper added

We want only strong relations with America, and I really hope we will have them,

he said

With his outrageously boorish behaviour during his stay in Washington, Zelensky confirmed that he is the most dangerous threat to the world community as an irresponsible warmonger,

Zakharova said

I doubt that we could stand without the American help. They have helped us a lot with weapons and money. Maybe Europe will help us,

Kyiv resident Liudmyla Stetsevych, 47, told the Reuters news agency

The Americans don’t know the real situation, what’s going on here,

Ella Kazantseva, 54, told Reuters across from a sea of flags in central Kyiv commemorating Ukraine’s war dead

Many European countries voiced their support for Ukraine, we hope they will step up and increase aid for Ukraine, especially military equipment and ammunition,

Alina Zhaivoronko, from Kyiv, told Reuters

JD Vancevice President

You should be thanking the president for trying to bring an end to this conflict,

Vance added

In the short term, this tragicomic exchange will undoubtedly weaken Zelenskyy’s position within Ukraine and give Russian diplomacy additional leverage in its dealings with the US,

said Anton Grishanov, a researcher at a thinktank affiliated with Russia’s foreign ministry

Aleksey Pushkovsenior lawmaker

The White House will now start looking more closely at other candidates for Ukraine’s presidency,

wrote Alexey Pushkov, a member of the upper house of the Russian parliament, on Telegram