European leaders came out with sweeping support for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy following the explosive Oval Office meeting in which President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance gave harsh reprimands and accused him of being “disrespectful.”
Several leaders took to social media to back Ukraine and to remind Washington that Russian President Vladimir Putin is the Russia-Ukraine conflict’s “aggressor,” not Zelenskyy.
The EU’s chief diplomat, Kaja Kallas, had some of the strongest words of rebuke for Trump and said, “We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the aggressor.”
“Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader,” she added. “It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.”