Democratic lawmakers rushed to defend Volodymyr Zelenskyy after the Ukrainian leader was publicly berated by Donald Trump in a disastrous Oval Office meeting.

The US president accused Zelenskyy of ā€œgambling with world war threeā€ while his vice-president, JD Vance, called the Ukrainian leader ā€œdisrespectfulā€, before cutting short talks aimed at kicking off the process of ending Kyivā€™s three-year war with Russia.

Zelenskyy abruptly left the White House soon after without signing a rare critical minerals deal with the US that Trump has said is the first step toward a ceasefire agreement that he is seeking to broker between Russia and Ukraine.

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