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Ukraine scrambles to salvage fractured alliance with U.S. as military aid is suspended

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🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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President Zelenskyy expressed regret Tuesday for how his Oval Office meeting with President Trump melted down Friday, and he echoed Trump's language about hoping to end the war and sign an economic deal. But Zelenskyy made the statement after the Trump administration paused military aid to Ukraine. Nick Schifrin reports and Doug Lute, a retired Army lieutenant general, joins Amna Nawaz to discuss. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

It has also been a dramatic day for the administration's policy on Ukraine.

0:05.0

President Zelensky today expressed regret for how his Oval Office meeting with President Trump

0:10.4

melted down on Friday, and he echoed President Trump's language about hoping to end the war

0:15.9

and signed an economic deal.

0:17.5

But Zelensky made that statement after the Trump administration paused all

0:22.3

military aid, aid that's helped the country survive Russia's full-scale invasion. Here's Nick Schiffin

0:28.3

with more. In Kiev tonight, a mea copa. We can only regret what happened at the White

0:35.9

House instead of our negotiations.

0:38.1

But we must find the strength to move forward, to respect one another.

0:42.2

You're buried there, you're people that died.

0:45.3

Since Friday, U.S. officials have been wanting Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to apologize

0:50.0

and indicate a willingness to cease fire, which he did for the first time today on X.

0:55.4

He wrote, the first stages could be the release of prisoners and truce in the sky, a ban on

0:59.9

missiles, long-range drones, bombs on energy and other civilian infrastructure, and truce

1:05.1

in the sea immediately, if Russia will do the same.

1:09.6

Zelensky also pledged to sign an economic deal that would pay half of all revenue from

1:13.5

Ukraine's critical minerals, including this titanium mine, to an investment fund jointly owned

1:18.6

with the U.S.

1:19.9

It would upend decades of U.S. precedent, forcing the invade id, not the invader, to pay up.

1:26.5

But it would also mean the U.S. was invested literally

1:29.4

in Ukraine's future, as the two presidents celebrated before Friday's meeting blew up.

1:34.4

It's a big commitment from the United States, and we appreciate working with you very

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