The White House He denied this Saturday to have orchestrated an ambush against Volodimir Zelenski And he blamed the Ukrainian president of the historic confrontation who made the meeting jump with the president of the United States, Donald Trump, this Friday at the Oval Office.
“This was an ambush It is absolute and categorically false, “said Mike WaltzTrump National Security Advisor, in an interview with the Fox News chain.
Walz said that the White House had prepared a “beautiful scenario in the East Room” so that Trump and Zelenski sign the agreement by which Ukraine would share their natural resources with the United States, but accused the Ukrainian president of having dynamited the meeting.
According to the senior official, Zelenski chose to “litigate” with Trump Although he had noticed that he did not and showed that “it is not clear” that Ukraine really wants to end the war. “He had a wrong approach, at a wrong historical moment and definitely with the wrong president To try to do that, “Walz added.
A harmonic meeting for 40 minutes
According to the White House account, the meeting was harmoniously developed for 40 minutes and It was Zelenski who decided to break the tone with an attitude of confrontationwhich first react to the American vice president, JD Vance, and then to Trump to stop his feet.
For the Democratic oppositionthe unprecedented discussion in front of television cameras was “an ambush planned to humiliate” Zelenski and reinforce the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
The tension had begun to climb minutes before the encounter when a presenter of a Trumpist media affected Zelenski for not having come to the meeting in a suit, something that caused the laughter of Vance.
The meeting derailed when Zelenski and Vance began to argue for security guarantees That Ukraine demands in front of Russia, a confrontation to which Trump later joined.
After the brawl, Zelenski was expelled from the White House and both the signing of the Mineral Agreement and the press conference scheduled between both leaders were canceled.
