Oksana Makarova covered her face with one hand while moving her head in despair. This image of the Ukraine ambassador to the United States has become the symbol in the Ukrainian media of how he has received. There was hope that the agreement reached the day before for the exploitation of Ukrainian minerals between the two countries served to reverse Donald Trump’s inquina against Volodimir Zelenski. But the opposite has happened.
The first reactions appeared in the Ukrainian media and social networks show the magnitude of the disaster, which seems an irreparable breakdown between Zelenski and Trump. “This has not been a press conference, this has been an ambush,” said Akash Maniam, a known promoter of international support for kyiv. “It’s shameful. They are trying without any blush to kneel Zelenski with everything they can, as if it were a bar fight and not the oval office, ”said Illia Ponomarenko, one of the most popular war analysts in Ukraine.
“They never wanted an agreement, point,” added Ponomarenko, commenting on the fact that the Economic Cooperation Treaty was finally not signed. The words of this analyst coincide with the vision of multiple Ukrainian voices that understand that Trump wants to see Zelenski leave office. Republican Lindsey Graham reiterated in Wahsington that Zelenski is no longer a valid interlocutor because he has insulted his country.
“It is the worst time in bilateral relations between Ukraine and the US while Ukraine libra a war of existence. How can we build a mutual benefit relationship if President Ukraine or listens to him and the righteous interests of Ukraine are belittled in public? ”Mikola Bielieskov, an expert from the National Institute of Strategic Studies, agency under the Presidency of Ukraine, has been asked.
Andrii Kovalenko, a member of the National Security Council of Ukraine, and a trusted man of the Zelenski team, has affirmed that what happened “is history, something like that and happened in the twentieth century.” Kovalenko has been one of the voices that have tried to defend the official argument of the power dome in kyiv with more vehement, which the arrival of a hard guy like Trump to the White House would serve to put Vladimir Putin in a sidewalk.
“Things are still on the table and Ukraine is defending their own interests in very difficult conditions. But everything is still on the table, ”added Kovalenko.
” We are very concerned about where this can go, ”said former Minister of Defense Andrii Zagorodniuk, the first head of this portfolio during the presidency of Zelenski. Zagorodniuk believes that there has been a “provocative” attitude by the White House and that, in the end, what has been evidenced is that the US is not willing to provide defense measures in the future sufficient to deter Russia from future attacks if a fire is signed.
Zelenski’s team and his government maintain silently because the order is not to warm the environment. The Vice Prime Minister Mikhail Fedórov wanted to see the vessel half full by ensuring that its president has planted face, so “another trap of Vladimir Putin has failed”: “I respect Zelenski for his courage calling things by his name because it is in honor of his people, who have paid with his blood for freedom.”
“All support for the president of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. No one has the right to forget that in this war, Russia is the aggressor and Ukraine the victim, ”said Ruslan Stefonchuk, president of the Rada, the Ukrainian Parliament.
Despite the desaite, Zelenski has opted for a conciliatory position from your social networks: “Thank you America, thank you for your support, thanks for this visit. Thanks President Trump, thanks to the American Congress and the people. Ukraine needs a fair and lasting peace, and we work exactly on this. The Ukrainian leader’s message is also understood after the criticism made by Trump and his vice president JD Vance, accusing him of not giving thanks during his meeting at the White House for US assistance.
Also criticism of Zelenski
The leader of Holos, opposition party, wanted to show her support to the Head of State: “I cannot even imagine the pressure under what our president is. I wish you wisdom and measure. His country is with him. ” Vitali Klitschko, mayor kyiv and rival of Zelenski, has warned that “it is not the time to take by emotions, none of the parties.”
European solidarity, the main formation of the, has criticized the Ukrainian president for losing the temper. “We respect President Trump and Vice President Vance, we are grateful for the help that US has contributed to us. Ukraine are millions of people, Ukraine is not just a person. Without the US, we will not resist, ”said Oleksii Gontentko, deputy of European Solidarity.
“We have witnessed the end of our relationships with Trump. Why set up this scandal with the US president in front of the cameras? This fight can have very bad consequences, from disconnecting the Starlink satellite connection to block all the intelligence information that EE UU gives us, ”says Goncharenko. “I have never seen worse negotiations, Ukraine is losing its greatest ally,” said another opposition voice to Zelenski, the former governor of the National Bank Kirilo Shevchenko.
Volodimir Fesenko, director of the Penta Political Studies Center, has pointed out that Zelenski has been carried away by emotions at the same level as Trump but also because of the “provocations” of JD Vance: “This is not a binding, this is a crisis in relations between Zelenski and Trump, and an international crisis.” “It was provided for a break, given the encounters of the last weeks, but not so early, rather during the peace negotiations,” said Fesenko, “we must minimize the negative impact of today’s events but it is highly likely that the issue of peace negotiations is canceled for a while.”
