A group of bipartisan senators met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday morning before the tense exchange between the Ukrainian leader, President Donald Trump and vice president JD Vance.
Sens. Lindsey Graham, RS.C., Chris Coans, D-Del., And Amy Klobuchar, D-minn., In addition to other democratic and republican senators, gathered for an hour “encouraging” Zelenskyy before their visit to the White House, the three legislators published in their social media accounts.
“I just finished an encouraging meeting in Washington with President @Zelenskyua and a bipartisan group of senators to discuss our current association with Ukraine,” Coob wrote in xAccompanied by a selfie with Zelenskyy, Graham and Klobuchar.
Really good bipartisan meeting before President Zelensky addresses the White House. We are with Ukraine “Amy Klobuchar published on February 28, 2025.
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“Really good bipartisan meeting before President Zelensky addresses the White House. We are with Ukraine.” Klobuchar wrote in a Publish in x.
“So Honoraed to Take Part In the Hour-Long Discussion With President Zelensky and Senators Coans, Graham, and Other Democratic and Republican Senators This Morning. There is Strong Bipartisan Support in the Senate for Ukraine’s Freedom and Democracy,” She aggregate.
Graham, In a videoHe also said he met with Zelenskyy, adding that he was heading to the White House to sign the mineral agreement.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (L) speaks with President Donald Trump (R) at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, February 28, 2025.
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“This is half a billion of dollars that will greatly benefit the American economy. Ukraine is the richest country in Europe when it comes to critical minerals,” said Graham. “These minerals are necessary for us to compete and win the economy of the 21st century. President Trump was very excited, President Zelenskyy is very excited about this economic agreement.”
However, the agreement now seems to be in danger after Zelenskyy, Trump and Vance shot at the Oval office and subsequently canceled the firm ceremony.
Graham at the White House later on Friday seemed to change his song of his morning comments, saying: “I have never been more proud of the president. I was very proud that JD Vance defended our country.”
“What I saw in the Oval office was disrespectful, and I don’t think we can do business with Zelenskyy never again,” he said.
Senator Lindsey Graham talks to journalists outside the west wing of the White House, on February 28, 2025, in Washington.
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“It made it difficult for the American people to believe that it is a good investment,” he added. “He needs to give up and send someone with whom we can do business or who needs to change.”
Even so, Klobuchar and Coans went out with X positions in defense of the Ukrainian president after his exchange in the Oval office, particularly the moment when Vance accused Zelenskyy of being “disrespectful” with his US hosts.
“Answer to Vance: Zelenskyy has thanked our country over and over again both private and public. And our country thanks him and the Ukrainian patriots who have faced a dictator, buried their own & He stopped Putin marching just to the rest of Europe. What a shame, “Klobuchah wrote.
“Every time I met with President Zelenskyy, he thanked the American people for our strong support. We owe our thanks for leading a nation that struggles in the first line of democracy, not the disgusting public he received in the White House,” Cooons, ” wrote.
