Former U.S. ambassador on Zelenskyy’s next moves after Oval Office blowout
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🗓️ 1 March 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm John Yang. Tonight, Washington and European capitals are still feeling the reverberations of yesterday's heated Oval Office exchange between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodemar Zelensky. |
| 0:13.9 | Hours after Mr. Trump scolded Zelensky for not showing enough appreciation for U.S. support, the Ukrainian leader posted on X, |
| 0:21.2 | we are very grateful to the United States for all the support. I'm thankful to President Trump, |
| 0:26.8 | Congress for their bipartisan support, and the American people. He also reiterated his opposition |
| 0:33.0 | to a quick ceasefire that President Trump wants, saying Russian leader Vladimir Putin can't be trusted. |
| 0:39.4 | Now Zelensky is in London to rally the support of European leaders. Today he met with |
| 0:44.1 | UK Prime Minister Kier Sturmer, and tomorrow he'll attend a European summit in London to discuss |
| 0:49.4 | the way forward. Kurt Volker is a former U.S. Special Envoy to Ukraine and a former U.S. ambassador to NATO. |
| 0:56.8 | Mr. Volker, what do you expect to come out of this European summit tomorrow that Zelensky is |
| 1:01.5 | attending? Well, I think there are some good things that we've seen already, these expressions |
| 1:05.8 | of European support and solidarity for Ukraine. I think it's important for Zelensky psychologically, |
| 1:12.0 | I think it's also important for the Ukrainian people. But I hope that behind closed doors, |
| 1:16.9 | they're actually talking about what kind of things need to be done to get Ukraine and the United |
| 1:21.9 | States and Europe all on the same page again. We can't be creating a dynamic of Europe and Ukraine against the United |
| 1:29.4 | States. We all have to pull together. And there, I think it's going to be a matter of Europe |
| 1:34.5 | being willing to put on the table forces for security assurances for Ukraine. And I think it's got |
| 1:41.8 | to be President Zelensky saying that he wants peace, |
| 1:44.8 | he wants to have a ceasefire, he will agree to one as soon as Putin does, to get things back |
| 1:51.2 | on track with the U.S. as well. If U.S. aid were to be cut or even go away, could Zelensky, |
| 1:56.7 | could Ukraine go on with just European support? Is there enough? Are there enough forces and hardware to keep them going? |
| 2:03.6 | It's not enough. |
| 2:05.1 | It's good. |
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