In his first public comments since Trump halted US military aid to Ukraine, Zelensky said his public bust-up with Trump last week was “regrettable” and pledged to sign a key minerals deal with Washington.
A dramatic collapse in the Kyiv-Washington wartime alliance has played out in the open since an Oval Office clash between Zelensky and Trump last week, crescendoing with Ukraine's top ally suspending crucial military aid.
“Our meeting in Washington, at the White House on Friday, did not go the way it was supposed to be,“ the Ukrainian leader added. “It is time to make things right.”
Moscow hailed Trump's decision, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov calling it a “solution which could really push the Kyiv regime to a peace process”.
The urgency heightened with last week's Trump-Zelensky clash, when Trump warned his Ukrainian counterpart “won’t be around very long” without a ceasefire deal.
The funding, she said, would “massively step up” support to Ukraine and provide it “immediate military equipment”.
'Stab in the back'
“It’s like a stab in the back,“ a 33-year-old financial assistant in Kyiv who gave only her first name, Sofia, told AFP.
Poland's government noted that America's decision was made without consulting NATO allies, and the impact was already being seen at a weapons and aid logistics hub for Ukraine it hosts.
French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou told lawmakers in Paris that “entire trains” carrying US supplies for Ukraine “are being stopped and prevented from reaching their destination”.
The US pause impacts hundreds of millions of dollars of weaponry in the process of being sent to Ukraine, The New York Times reported.
Last week, Zelensky visited Washington to sign the multi-billion-dollar minerals deal -- but that fell through after his showdown with Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
Ukraine is seeking tough security guarantees for an end to the war.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who has rallied to Zelensky's support, spoke with him by phone Tuesday, telling him “no one wanted peace more than Ukraine”, Downing Street said.
Vance, in a Monday interview with Fox News, mocked the idea of “some random country that has not fought a war in 30 or 40 years” sending soldiers to Ukraine. That prompted angry responses from French and British politicians.
Vance insisted Tuesday he had not mentioned France or Britain, and said both had “fought bravely” alongside the United States over the past two decades.
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