In a stormy White House meeting, US President Donald Trump reportedly urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accept Russian President Vladimir Putin’s terms for ending the war, warning that Moscow would “destroy" Ukraine if it refused.
According to a Financial Times report, quoting officials, the encounter devolved into a “shouting match", marked by Trump’s expletive-laden outbursts and erratic behaviour, including throwing away maps of the Ukrainian front line.
‘Accept the deal or be destroyed,’ Trump tells Zelenskyy
During the meeting, Trump is said to have pressed Zelenskyy to surrender the entire Donbas region to Russia, echoing the Russian leader’s position almost verbatim. “Putin told me it’s a special operation, not even a war," Trump reportedly said, urging Zelenskyy t