2025 Moments: What changed after Trump's clash with Zelenskyy?
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🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Nobody expected a sit-down meeting between two world leaders to become one of the most explosive encounters of Ukraine’s war with Russia.
When President Zelenskyy walked into the Oval Office to face Donald Trump back in February, their White House meeting descended into a fiery, confrontational, openly hostile clash. But did that showdown shift the course of the conflict?
Niall is joined by military analyst Michael Clarke and Sky’s international affairs editor Dominic Waghorn to look back at the bust up, and how it impacted the push for peace in Ukraine.
Producer: Soila Apparicio
Editor: Mike Bovill
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| 0:00.0 | Sky News, the full story first. |
| 0:09.7 | Do you remember this from February? |
| 0:12.0 | Your country's in big trouble. |
| 0:13.6 | Wait a minute. |
| 0:14.3 | No, no, you've done a lot of talking. |
| 0:15.9 | The moment when Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelensky |
| 0:18.3 | sat down in the Oval Office and was ambushed by Donald Trump. |
| 0:22.7 | Well, as we head into Christmas here on the Sky News Daily, we're putting that moment under the microscope with our experts, profiling the exchange that changed the story of Ukraine's war with Russia. |
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| 1:36.8 | Hi everyone. Welcome to the Daily and with Christmas fast approaching. We thought we'd take a look back at 2025, but through the prism of some of the |
| 1:44.8 | moments that defined the year. And we start back in February, soon after a changing of the |
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