During a heated exchange between President Donald Trump And Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy in the Oval Office On Friday, the Ukrainian ambassador Oksana Markarova seemed desperate with her head in her hand.
The moment was recorded in a number of viral photos and videos, while Trump Zelenskyy interviewed about it did not want a Help with Russia At a live press event of the White House.
While shaky microphones floated above the splash leaders, Markarova lowered her head to her right hand and closed her eyes.
Oksana Markarova, Ukrainian ambassador in the US, puts her head in her hand during a heated exchange on Friday between President Donald Trump and the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy in the White House. (Photo/pool)
President Trump spoke to Zolenskyy and said, “You say you don’t stop -fires. I want a cease -the fire because you cease a cease -the fire then gets an agreement.”
The Ukrainian president chimde in it: “I said to you … with guarantees. Ask our people about (a) striking -the fires, (about) what they think.”
Trump strongly stopped the conversation and said, “That was not with me.”
President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance meet Ukrainian President VolodyMyr Zensky, left, in the Oval Office in the White House on Friday in Washington, DC (Andrew Harnik/Getty images)
Zenskyy leaves the White House after he has ‘kicked out’ after the heated meeting
The leaders were expected to sign a deal that share the rare earth minerals of Ukraine and discuss a peace agreement with Russia when the conversation was controversial.
After questions were asked by Zenskyy about diplomacy, Vice President JD Vance reprimanded him for “Try (ING) to litigate” for the American media and called his actions “disrespectful”.
“You think it is respectful to come to the Oval Office of the United States of America and attack the administration that tries to prevent the destruction of your country,” asked Vance Zenskyy.
Ukrainian President VolodyMyr Zenskyy and President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on Friday in Washington, DC (Getty Images)
Sources close to Zenskyy noted that the tensions were high prior to the meeting, Fox News Digital reported earlier.
Zolenskyy reportedly rejected the mineral security agreement before the Friday meeting due to the absence of security guarantees that protects Ukraine against another Russian invasion.
Although the Ukrainian president warned that he would need those guarantees to sign the deal, sources said that the dismissal made Trump and Vance angry.
Only a few minutes after reporters asked their first questions, the heated disagreement unfolded.
The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy leaves the Oval Office on Friday. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty images)
Reporters watched in shock while the meeting stopped abruptly and Zenskyy was rushed out of the White House.
Minutes later Trump placed social on the truth and said: “President Zenskyy is not ready for peace when America is involved, because he feels that our involvement gives him a big advantage of negotiations. I don’t want an advantage, I want peace.”
Zenskyy then placed X, thanked America and Trump for their support and allowing the visit.
“Ukraine needs just and permanent peace, and we work exactly for that,” he wrote in the post.
Oksana Markarova, the Ukrainian ambassador in the US, is recognized during the State of the Union address of President Joe Biden in the living room of the US Capitol on February 7, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
Markarova was an ambassador for about a year when Russia invaded Ukraine and put her in the spotlight.
In September, Fox News Digital Exclusive reported That house speaker Mike Johnson wrote a letter to Zenskyy looking for the dismissal of Markarova after reporting a tour of an American production site for Zenskyy, which was funded by the American taxpayer, financed by the American taxpayer, in Pennsylvania, An important battlefield state, prior to the 2024 presidential election.
Johnson, R-La., said the tour “deliberately excluded” republicans and called the “election interference”.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Left, shakes hands with Oksana Markarova, the Ukrainian ambassador in the US, during an event that reveals a photography exhibition about the war in Ukraine in 2022 in Washington, DC (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, file)
“The facility was in a politically disputed battlefield state, was led by a top political surrogate for Kamala Harris and could not record any republican because – in intention – no republicans were invited,” Johnson wrote in the letter.
He said that the “short -sighted and deliberate political movement” led the Republicans to “lose confidence” in the ability of Markarova to serve as a diplomat honestly and effectively.
Chairman of the house Mike Johnson, R-La., Tumbles with reporters in the Capitol in Washington on January 7, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)
“She should be removed from her post immediately,” wrote Johnson.
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The Ukraine embassy in the United States of America did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comments.
Caitlin McFall and Brooke Singman from Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
