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Last Updated:March 01, 2025, 07:27 IST
Zelenskyy and Trump openly clashed in the White House during a meeting intended to finalise a deal on sharing Ukraine's mineral resources and discuss a peace agreement with Russia
US President Donald Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meet in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, February 28, 2025. (AFP photo)
Russia’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Friday said US President Donald Trump showed “restraint" by not hitting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during their shouting match in the White House.
“I think Zelensky’s biggest lie of all his lies was his assertion in the White House that the Kyiv regime in 2022 was alone, without support," she wrote on Telegram.
“How Trump and Vance held back from hitting that scumbag is a miracle of restraint," she said, adding that Zelensky was “biting the hand that feeds him".
She accused Zelensky of being “unpleasant with everyone".
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who is now deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, called Zelensky an “insolent pig" who had received “a proper slap down in the Oval Office".
Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, called the heated confrontation between Trump and Zelensky “historic".
Dmitriev was one of Moscow’s negotiators in the Russian-American talks held on February 18 in Saudi Arabia — the first since Russia began its Ukraine offensive in 2022.
(With inputs from agencies)
Location :Washington D.C., United States of America (USA)
First Published:March 01, 2025, 07:27 IST
News world Russia Says Trump's Restraint In Not 'Hitting That Scumbag' Zelenskyy In White House Fight A 'Miracle'
