"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.