President Volodymyr Zelensky believes he defended Ukraine’s dignity of Ukraine during a tense conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in late February.
The president expressed his opinion in an interview with Time, Ukrinform reports.
“In that conversation, I was defending the dignity of Ukraine,” Zelensky said.
He recalled that it was precisely because of a sense of dignity that Ukrainians began to defend themselves from the very outset of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
“Why did the Ukrainians defend themselves at the start of this war? It was because of dignity. We do not consider ourselves some kind of superpower,” the head of state noted.
The president continued that Ukrainians “are very emotional, and when it comes to our sense of dignity, freedom, democracy, our people rise up and unite”.
The magazine notes that Ukrainians were hoping to see in the Oval Office in late February proof that the United States remains their ally.
“But in that moment there was the sense of not being allies, or not taking the position of an ally,” Zelensky concluded.
As Ukrinform reported earlier, Volodymyr Zelensky’s meeting with Donald Trump on February 28 completed early after the conversation between Zelensky, Trump, and Vance at the White House turned into a heated argument.
Later in March, U.S. President Donald Trump said he had invited his Ukrainian counterpart to meet at the White House again.
Source: Zelensky explains emotions during White House meeting
