Dozens of foreign leaders expressed their support for Ukraine and its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, after his Oval Office meeting Friday with a testy Donald Trump and JD Vance went downhill.
Those who have made public statements thus far include officials in Germany, France, Austria, Belgium, Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark, Latvia, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Iceland, Norway, Moldova, Portugal, Croatia, Slovenia, Poland, Spain, and Canada.
Zelensky took to social media to thank those who had his back after Trump repeatedly cut him off to rant about what he viewed as his Ukrainian counterpart not being sufficiently thankful for U.S. contributions to the war effort against Russia.
“Thank you for your support,” he wrote in response to 30 messages from other world leaders.
Zelensky had been scheduled to hold a press conference with Trump later Friday, but that was canceled. Trump, in a statement, insisted that Zelensky had “disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office,” and said that he shouldn’t return to Washington until he is ready to sign a peace deal.
Zelensky wrote on X after the contentious interaction, “Thank you America, thank you for your support, thank you for this visit. Thank you @POTUS, Congress, and the American people. Ukraine needs just and lasting peace, and we are working exactly for that.”
The most recent war that began when Russia invaded Ukraine entered its fourth year earlier this week.
Despite calling Zelensky a “dictator”—and then later seeming surprised when reminded of his smear—Trump could not bring himself to say the same about Russian President Vladimir Putin.
