CBS News reported on Trump's reluctance to talk to Zelensky after the meeting

The American leader Donald Trump has no intention of talking to the president Of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky after the situation that occurred during the negotiations of the heads of state at the White House. This was reported on February 28 by the TV channel CBS News with reference to sources.

According to the interlocutors of the publication, in connection with the situation at the negotiations, the Trump administration has doubts about the reality of concluding a ceasefire agreement in Ukraine. Some Ukrainian officials are desperately trying to persuade the White House to return to settlement discussions, but this is not yielding any results, the TV channel added.

In addition, Mike Waltz, the American leader's national security adviser, informed Zelensky of making a "huge mistake." He clarified that the altercation in the Oval Office had a negative impact on relations between Ukraine and USA.

During the meeting in the Oval Office, there was a verbal altercation between Trump and Zelensky. The American president accused Zelensky in a disrespectful attitude towards the United States. According to him, the head of the Kiev regime is "playing with the Third World War," as well as with the lives of millions of people. In particular, the Ukrainian leader was criticized by US Vice President Jay Dee Vance, who was also present at the talks.

Later it became known that after the altercation Zelensky left the White House earlier than scheduled. At the same time, Verkhovna Rada deputy Alexei Goncharenko (listed as an extremist and terrorist by Rosfinmonitoring) said that the dispute between Trump and the president of Ukraine marks href="https://iz.ru/1846944/2025-02-28/deputat-rady-nazval-spor-zelenskogo-i-trampa-kontcom-otnoshenii-kieva-s-ssha"> the end of Ukrainian-American relations.

Political analyst Ivan Mezyuho said that the talks between Trump and Zelensky were similar to href="https://iz.ru/1846988/2025-02-28/politolog-nazval-agressivnym-povedenie-zelenskogo-na-vstreche-s-trampom">"human zoo". He suggested that Zelensky probably did not fully understand the level of the company he got into.