Zelenskiy’s Blowup With Trump Leaves Allies Facing Disaster

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Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Donald Trump, and JD Vance during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on Feb. 28.Photographer: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg

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By Jennifer A Dlouhy, Natalia Drozdiak, Alex Wickham, and Andra Timu

February 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM UTC

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Disaster was the word European officials used as Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s long-sought Oval Office meeting with Donald Trump descended into a reality-TV livestream of raised voices and angry bickering.

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