"Have you said 'thank you' once?" Vance asked Zelensky as tempers flared in the February meeting. When Zelensky attempted to respond, Trump cut him off. "No, no. You've done a lot of talking. Your country is in big trouble," Trump said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned against half-hearted agreements to end the war in his country shortly before meeting US President Donald Trump in Washington. "Peace must be lasting," Zelensky wrote on social media platform X.

Trump will meet the Ukrainian leader, along with several European heads of state and the NATO Secretary-General, on Monday.