The only ‘winner’ in White House row is Vladimir Putin

Ukraine unites in response to Trump-Zelenskyy spat and resigns itself to new reality

Some Ukrainians I have spoken to since the fractious encounter, during which Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy was repeatedly hectored by US President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, have indeed characterized it as disastrous for the country.

“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelenskyy.” 

That was the verdict of the editorial team at the Kyiv Independent, one of Ukraine’s leading media outlets, on the remarkable spat in the Oval Office that played out on February 28.