Zelenskyy Charms Trump at the Oval Office

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From the moment Donald Trump Folodimir Zelinski received outside the western wing on Monday afternoon, there seemed to be less personal tension among men compared to their two backgrounds in late February.

Zelinski’s allies were afraid of another public confrontation in the Oval Office – with the consequences of Trump’s position Ukraine in its war against Russia. Their concerns were unfounded.

Ukrainian President accepted Trump’s call to wear a suit for this occasion instead of his usual military clothes. The American president smiled, and when one of the reporters asked about what his message was to the people of Ukraine, he replied, “We love them.”

Inside the Oval Office – Busty statue scene Almost six months ago-Vice President JD Vance and Foreign Minister Marco Rubio were sitting in the same positions on the sofa next to the two leaders.

Vans married Zelinski In February, he told him frankly that he needed to be more grateful for our support in his war against Russia’s widespread invasion of Russia. This time he said nothing. The presidents only occur.

The new fall components were definitely there. On Friday, Trump released the red carpet to welcome President Vladimir Putin Summit in Marsa, Alaska – Then he stood with the position of the leader of Russia on the war. Trump dropped his request to the immediate ceasefire that Zelinski and the Europeans were carrying.

The US President also indicated that Ukraine may even need to waive more lands for Russia to create peace – a suggestion of his high rejection of Kiev.

But the United States opened the door to providing some unlimited security guarantees to Ukraine as part of a peace deal, as long as other European countries and NATO allies bear most of the burden.

In a social publication, in fact, Monday morning, Trump was clear that this would not include NATO membership in Ukraine. He gave his comments along with Zelenskyy in the Oval Office more details and repeated his view that the Europeans would take the initiative.

“We will give (Ukraine) very good protection and very good security,” Trump said. “They are the first line of defense because they are there, they are Europe. But we will also help them. We will participate.”

One of the light moments, about the black lawsuit that Zelinsky was wearing, cut the high meeting shares.

Brian Glen, a correspondent for the real province of America – and a partner of Congress, Maga Margori Taylor Green – criticized Zelinski in February for its appearance in the White House in the time of wartime that he became famous.

For a while after the bad meeting of the Casablanca office, the conservative media in the United States seized his clothes to criticize the Ukrainian leader.

On Monday, the two men exchanged a friendly laugh about the upgraded outfit from Zelinski.

“You look great in that lawsuit,” said Glenn. Trump agreed, saying that he told Zellinsky “the same thing.” Then the Ukrainian president joined that Glin was wearing the same lawsuit as in February.

In addition to changing clothes, Zelinski also praised a message sent by the first lady Melania Trump to Putin about the fate of Ukrainian children, including those who were kidnapped by Russia.

Zelenskyy delivered a message from his wife to the first lady. “It is not for you, (it’s) for your wife,” Zelinski told Trump, at a moment of lifting. “I want that,” the US president said, with a smile.

Trump and Zellinski were scheduled to join lunch by a large group of European leaders, who had hurriedly traveled to Washington to support the Ukrainian leader.

This was a major change compared to chance six months ago, when the Ukrainian leader suddenly left the White House, his own meal with the president – and witnessed America’s allies in shock from all over the Atlantic Ocean.

“They (they) are all my friends and friends … they want to see peace,” Trump said of European leaders, including Prime Minister Sir Kerr Starmer, Prime Minister in France, Emmanuel Macron, and NATO Secretary Mark Root, who arrived at the White House minutes before Zelinski.

Despite the improved tone of the meeting, the result of the White House diplomatic assembly, which cannot determine not only the fate of Ukraine, but the security of Europe as a whole has not been settled early in the afternoon.

Before leaving the press directly from the Oval Office, Trump reminded everyone that Putin would also determine what happened next, including a triple meeting with him and Zelenskyy.

“I just spoke to President Putin indirectly, and we will receive a phone call immediately after these meetings today,” Trump said. “We may have or not have a triple. If we do not have a triple, the fighting continues,” he said.