The panelists “The Bottom Line” Rebekah Koffler and Sohrab Ahmari give their vision of the tense meeting between President Donald Trump and the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has chosen to conclude an economic agreement between Ukraine and the United States at a tense oval office meeting with the president Donald Asset Friday, the secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, said on Sunday, adding that there was no agreement currently on the table.
Bessent appeared on “Face The Nation” of CBS, where he described that an essential element of Trump’s idea for the economic arrangement between Ukraine and the United States was “to more intertwine” the people of the two nations and show the Russian leadership “There was no daylight” between the two.
“And President Zelenskyy entered the Oval Office and tried to delight the agreement in the world,” he said. “The place to have done it would have been in private lunch.”
Zelenskyy’s meeting with Trump and Vice-President JD Vance broke out in a white house in the White House on Friday that was seen worldwide when the Ukrainian president pressed American leaders for security against Russia.
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President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fought in front of the White House journalists in Washington, DC on Friday. (Reuters / Brian Snyder / Photo File / Reuters Photos)
“We had the president of France Emmanuel Macron on Monday. A big meeting. We had Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday. Fantastic meetings,” said Bessent. “They were all aboard the arc of the peace agreement. All that President Zelensky was to come was to come and sign this economic agreement. And once again, does not show daylight, no light of day between the Ukrainian people and the American people. And he chose to explode this.”
Bessent blamed Zelenskyy, who left the White House without signing the agreement, for having “thrown the sequence” towards a possible peace agreement to end the war with Russia.
The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent give a press conference at their meeting in kyiv on February 12, 2025, in the middle of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Tetiana dzhafarova / afp via getty images / getty images)
Regarding security, Bessent said he thought the plan was for the European Union To offer Ukraine security, stressing that the organization of the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) would not.
Bessent said that everything had been in place to sign the economic agreement before the eruption of the oval office, adding that, on Sunday, no offer of this type was on the table.
State department spokesperson Tammy Bruce says the Americans want a leadership team to defend America on “Kudlow”.
As part of the negotiations to end the Russia-Ukraine WarThe Trump administration embodied for Zelenskyy to sign an agreement that would allow the United States to access Ukraine minerals in exchange for support that the United States has provided the country since the invasion of Russia in 2022.
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The congress has assigned $ 175 billion since 2022 for helping Ukraine, according to the Council for Foreign Relations.
Diana Stancy of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
