US President Trump has long been a critic of the United States’s billions in aid for Ukraine. On Friday, tensions erupted after Trump and his vice president, JD Vance, accused Zelensky of not being \”thankful\” enough for US support. \”He can come back when he is ready for peace,\” said Trump, with his press secretary adding that the Ukrainian leader and his entourage were asked to leave the White House after the Oval Office clash. Ukraine political analyst Volodymyr Fesenko told AFP there was a long list of US actions under Trump that indicated such a rupture was on the horizon. \”All this shows that this rupture, this explosion, was bound to happen sooner or later,\” he said. \”What comes next is unclear, but it could augur badly for Ukraine,\” said ICG’s Brian Finucane, a senior adviser at the International Crisis Group (ICG) The European Council President has called for a special European summit devoted to Ukraine on March 6.
