MOSCOW – Russia said Saturday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s trip to the United States had been a “failure”, after US President Donald Trump berated him in a televised confrontation.
Zelenskyy planned to sign a minerals deal with the United States during the visit, but it ended in disaster when Trump and Vice President JD Vance accused the Ukrainian leader of being “disrespectful” and admonished him in front of US and international media.
“The visit of the head of the neo-Nazi regime, V. Zelenskyy, to Washington on February 28 is a complete political and diplomatic failure of the Kyiv regime,” Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement.
Accusing Zelenskyy of being “obsessed” with continuing the fighting, Zakharova added that Russia’s military goals in Ukraine were “unchanging.”
In the meantime, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that Russia is ready for flexibility in talks on Ukraine, but only in accordance with the Russian constitution and realities on the ground, adding that Russia would discuss a settlement with those “willing to engage in dialogue,” according to state news agency RIA Novosti.
