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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will visit the White House Monday to meet with President Donald Trump, following the U.S. president’s Friday meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The visit marks the first time Zelenskyy has returned to the White House since February, where he sparred openly with Trump and Vice President JD Vance in the Oval Office over engaging in diplomacy with Russia to end the conflict. The encounter prompted Vance to ask the Ukrainian leader if he’d “said thank you once this entire meeting.”
The tense exchange started after Zelenskyy challenged Vance’s statements that diplomacy was the right path to end the conflict. Zelenskyy questioned the value of diplomacy, and brought up that Putin has broken other agreements in the past.
JD VANCE STEPS INTO THE SPOTLIGHT DEFENDING TRUMP’S FOREIGN POLICY IN OVAL OFFICE DUSTUP WITH ZELENSKYY
President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy get into a verbal argument in the Oval Office in February 2025. (Getty Images)
“What kind of diplomacy, JD, you are speaking about?” Zelenskyy said. “What do you mean?”
Vance said, “I’m talking about the kind of diplomacy that’s going to end the destruction of your country.”
“Mr. President, with respect, I think it’s disrespectful for you to come into the Oval Office to try to litigate this in front of the American media,” Vance said. “Right now, you guys are going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems. You should be thanking the president for bringing it, to bring it into this country.”
“Have you ever been to Ukraine, that you say what problems we have?” Zelenskyy said.
“I’ve actually watched and seen the stories and I know that what happens is you bring people, you bring them on a propaganda tour,” Vance said. “Mr. President, do you disagree that you’ve had problems bringing people into your military? And do you…
