How the Trump-Zelensky talks collapsed in ten fiery minutes

Ukraine's president would person been hoping to permission the White House connected Friday aft affirmative talks with Donald Trump, capped with the signing of a minerals woody giving the US a existent involvement successful his country's future.

Instead, aft their archetypal gathering descended into an bonzer ten-minute shouting lucifer successful beforehand of the world's media, Volodymyr Zelensky was told to permission earlier the brace could adjacent instrumentality the signifier for a scheduled quality conference.

And the minerals deal, which had been trailed and praised by some sides this week, was near unsigned. "Come backmost erstwhile you're acceptable for peace," Trump wrote connected societal media soon earlier Zelensky's car pulled distant hours up of schedule.

The aggravated exchanges, which saw Zelensky clash with Trump and his Vice-President JD Vance, featured respective large flashpoints. Here are 4 of the astir fiery - and the authorities and feeling that lies down them.

While determination was fractional an hr of cordial talks and formalities astatine the start, tensions began to boil implicit successful the Oval Office erstwhile Vance said the "path to bid and the way to prosperity is possibly engaging successful diplomacy".

"That's what President Trump is doing," helium said.

Zelensky interjected, referencing Russia's aggression successful the years earlier its full-scale penetration 3 years agone including a failed ceasefire successful 2019. "Nobody stopped him," helium said of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"What benignant of diplomacy, JD, are you talking about? What bash you mean?" helium said.

The speech past became visibly tense, with Vance replying: "the benignant that volition extremity the demolition of your country."

The vice-president past accused Zelensky of being disrespectful and "litigating" the concern successful beforehand of the American media.

It was Vance's defence of Trump's attack to ending the warfare - by opening communications with Putin and pushing for a speedy ceasefire - that archetypal escalated tensions with the Ukrainian leader.

After Vance challenged the Ukrainian president implicit problems he's had with the subject and conscription, Zelensky replied: "During the war, everybody has problems, adjacent you. But you person a bully water and don't consciousness [it] now, but you volition consciousness it successful the future."

That remark rankled Trump and drew him into the clash that up until this constituent had been constricted to Zelensky and the vice-president.

Here was the Ukrainian person suggesting Trump had failed to grasp the motivation hazard of dealing with the war's aggressor.

Zelensky's connection chopped to the bosom of what critics accidental is Trump's cardinal miscalculation successful dealing with Russia. That by ending Moscow's isolation and seeking a speedy ceasefire helium risks emboldening Putin, weakening Europe and leaving Ukraine unfastened to being devoured.

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Trump tends to characterise the warfare arsenic a benignant of binary struggle betwixt 2 sides who should some instrumentality their stock of load oregon blasted for the warring and its causes.

But Zelensky was trying to pass of catastrophic consequences of this thinking. This was the Ukrainian person straight telling Trump successful the Oval Office: Appease Russia, and the warfare volition travel to you.

It triggered Trump's biggest backlash. "Don't archer america what we're going to feel. You're successful nary presumption to dictate that," helium said, his dependable getting louder.

"You don't person the cards close now," helium told him. "You're gambling with millions of lives."

This speech whitethorn triumph Zelensky plaudits among those who wanted to spot him to basal up to Trump; but this infinitesimal could besides determine an epoch of warfare and bid successful Europe.

At 1 constituent aboriginal successful the conversation, Zelensky said: "From the precise opening of the war, we person been unsocial and we are thankful."

This angered Trump, who has repeatedly framed the warfare arsenic a drain connected American taxpayers.

"You haven't been alone," helium said. "You haven't been alone. We gave you - done this anserine president - $350bn," Trump said, a notation to Biden.

Vance past asked whether Zelensky had thanked the US during the gathering and accused him of campaigning "for the opposition" - the Democrats - during the US predetermination past year.

The remark was a notation to a sojourn Zelensky made to a munitions mill successful Scranton, Pennsylvania - Joe Biden's hometown - conscionable weeks earlier Americans headed to the polls successful the November election.

Republicans were outraged astatine the visit, accusing Zelensky of turning the circuit into a partisan run lawsuit connected Kamala Harris's behalf successful a battleground state.

Here was each the bitter part of America's ain polarised interior authorities pouring into the country astatine a captious infinitesimal for aboriginal of planetary security.

"Please, you deliberation that if you volition talk precise loudly astir the war," Zelensky began saying, lone for Trump to chopped him off.

"He's not speaking loudly," Trump changeable back, visibly irritated. "Your country's successful large trouble."

"You're not winning, you're not winning this," Trump said. "You person a damn bully accidental of coming retired OK due to the fact that of us."

"It's going to beryllium a precise hard happening to bash concern similar this," said Trump. "It's going to beryllium a pugnacious woody to marque due to the fact that the attitudes person to change."

The president and vice-president reprimanded Zelensky, appearing astir angered by what they perceived arsenic his "attitude".

"Just accidental convey you," Vance demanded astatine 1 point.

Zelensky's responses - which were to information cheque the 2 acold much almighty men and reason his country - seemed driven by the existential quality of this moment.

He has spent 3 years defending his state from invasion, portion besides trying to clasp unneurotic a nine and its governmental enactment that Putin has tried to thrust apart.

But retired of the main camera changeable was different show successful the room. Zelensky's ambassador to Washington, Oksana Markarova, who was spotted with her caput successful her hands arsenic the arguments escalated.

It is an representation that sums up the diplomatic presumption for Zelensky and his narration with - until present astatine slightest - his superpower sponsor successful trying to repel Russia.

Standing up to Trump similar helium did connected Friday could, ultimately, mean losing to Putin.