Vice President JD Vance On Saturday he said confronted with pro-Ukrainian demonstrators while he walked with his 3-year-old daughter.
“Today, while walking my 3 -year -old daughter, a group of ‘Slava Ukrainian’ demonstrators followed us around and shouted when my daughter became more and more anxious and scared,” Vance posted on X.
“I decided to talk to the demonstrators in the hope that I could exchange a few minutes of conversation for those who left my toddler alone,” he continued. “Almost all of them agreed.”
Vance said it was a “usually respectful conversation, but if you follow a 3-year-old as part of a political protest, you are a person.”
Vice-president JD Vance said on Saturday that he was confronted with pro-Ukrainian demonstrators while walking with his 3-year-old daughter. (Drew Hallowell/Getty images)
“Slava Ukraini” is a battle cry for the Ukrainian armed forces, which means “glory for Ukraine.”
Although the vice -president did not specify what he talked to with the demonstrators, the Trump government broke down and stopped the financing in the past week for Ukraine Intelligence With the country after a tense Oval Office exchange between the Ukrainian President Volodyymyr Zenskyy, President Donald Trump and Vance.
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Tensions came up During the Oval Office Meeting 28 February about a potential peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine after Zenskyy said that Russian President Vladimir Putin could not be trusted and had broken other agreements.
Trump pauses help to Ukraine after a fiery meeting with Zenskyy
Trump and Vance then accused Zolenskyy of not being grateful for the support that the US has offered over the years and said that the Ukrainian leader was in a “bad position” at the negotiating table.
President Trump and vice -president JD Vance held a tense Oval Office meeting with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy on 28 February. (Andrew Harnik/Getty images)
“You play cards,” said Trump. “You are gambling with the lives of millions of people. You are gambling with the Second World War. You are gambling with the Second World War. And what you do is very disrespectful for the country, this country.”
After Vance had told that Zenskyy had manpower and military recruitment problems, Zenskyy said war that means “everyone has problems, even you”, adding the US would feel the war “in the future”.
“Don’t tell us what we’re going to feel,” Trump replied. “We try to solve a problem. Don’t tell us what we’re going to feel.”
Vice president JD Vance with his two young children. (Ian alongdon/AFP via Getty images)
Zenskyy was asked to leave the White House after the exchange, a planned news conference was canceled and a deal for Ukraine to give the US its rare earth minerals was not signed.
The White House has said that Zenskyy must publicly apologize for the Oval Office Meeting or the Minerals deal will not be considered.
On Tuesday, Zenskyy called the meeting “regrettable” And said he is ready to pursue peace with the help of Trump.
Vance was also met by demonstrators last weekend, when his family went a ski holiday in Vermont a day after the exchange of 28 February.
Pro-Ukrainian demonstrators demonstrated against Vance in Vermont after his tense meeting with Zenskyy. (John Lazenby/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
The demonstrators called him a “traitor” and said he “went skiing in Russia.”
Liberal commentator Tim Miller criticized during his X -Post Saturday and wrote: “Dozens of his death in Ukraine because you stopped giving the intelligence that protected the country against bombs, so that you can probably treat something in a free country boss.”
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On Friday Trump wrote about Truth Social that he was Seen “Large -scale” sanctions About Russia “Until a ceasefish -fires and the final settlement agreement on peace is reached.”
“Now go to the table before it’s too late,” he wrote about Russia and Ukraine.
