In the chaotic aftermath of an explosive Oval Office press conference on Friday with President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodyymyr Zenskyy Said his frustration with the administration started after it had issued a series of controversial comments in the five weeks after Trump’s inauguration.
“It’s not about (his) crazy,” Zenskyy told the most important political anchor of Fox News Bret Baier about “Special Report”.
“(If you hear) President, vice -president or someone or senators – does not matter, for example, great politicians – when they say that Ukraine is almost destroyed, that our soldiers are running away, that they are not heroes, that Ukraine lost millions of civilians that his president is dictator.
Vice -President JD Vance, right, speaks with Ukrainian President Volodyymyr Zenskyy, on the left, as President Donald Trump listens in the Oval Office in the White House on Friday, February 28, 2025 in Washington. (AP Photo/ Mystyslav Chernov)
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“The reaction is that, Where is our friendship Between Ukraine and United States? “
Zenskyy said it was important that Ukraine, the US and Europe maintain their large partnership against the aggression of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
But when asked if he thinks he should apologize for the heated discussions that broke out in the Oval Office, which started after Vance Zolensky accused of being ‘disrespectful’, said the Ukrainian leader ‘no’.
“I respect the president and I respect the American people,” he said. “I’m not sure if we’ve done something bad.”
During an interview with Bret Baier of Fox News, the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy speaks about “Special Report with Bret Baier” in the Fox News Studios 28 February 2025, in Washington, DC, DC (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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Zenskyy argued that important issues should be discussed thoroughly and Trump should warn: “Do not trust Putin.”
Zenskyy again noticed that security guarantees, what caused the inflatable In the Oval Office on Friday he is no problem that he can ignore because the threat of another Russian invasion is too great.
Zenskyy also repeated that he would be willing to resign as president as long as Ukraine received NATO membership.
“We want just and lasting peace. It’s true. We want security guarantees,” he said. “If (the) United States will support NATO … I think that’s enough for Ukraine.”
Ukrainian soldiers fires on the front line in the direction of the city of Ugledar, Donetsk, Ukraine, during the war in Russia-Ukraine on April 18, 2023. (Muhammed Enes Yildirim/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Trump, after having spoken with Putin earlier this month, began to push the idea That Ukraine should hold elections and claims that Zenskyy has little support in the Ukrainian public.
But under the constitution of Ukraine it cannot hold elections during a wartime.
