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Talks between US president and Ukrainian leader degenerate into shouting match before being cut short

The two presidents were meeting in the White House ahead of a London gathering of European leaders this weekend which will focus on boosting defence.

Donald Trump and JD Vance shouted over Volodymyr Zelensky as a critical meeting on Ukraine erupted into a shouting match in the Oval Office on Friday, 28 February.

Just minutes before the encounter in the oval office Zelenskyy met with a bipartisan group of senators in which they focused on topics including military assistance to Ukraine

Keir Starmer was only the second European leader to visit Donald Trump’s second White House. The first, France’s Emmanuel Macron, had barely taken off when Starmer touched down, but had already raised the bar by behaving regally in front of the world’s media alongside his fellow president in the Oval…

President Trump and Vice President Vance berated Ukrainian President Zelenskyy during a surreal and heated session in the Oval Office.

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The US president said he would be visiting the UK in the ‘near future’ as he met the Prime Minister in the Oval Office.

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