UK overseas secretary feels responsible about row between Zelenskyy and Trump

UK International Secretary David Lammy has confessed he felt responsible when he discovered of the row between Presidents Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump that occurred within the Oval Workplace in late February 2025.

Supply: Lammy in an interview with The Guardian, as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: David Lammy believes that he may have performed extra for his Ukrainian colleagues in preparation for the assembly with Trump.

"If I’m being trustworthy, I felt, arrghhh! Why hadn’t I performed extra to help our Ukrainian colleagues in preparation for his or her assembly?" Lammy stated.

On the similar time, he defined that the Ukrainian delegation was invited on the final second, whereas the British aspect was centered by itself assembly with Trump and didn’t have time to assist.

"I used to be being a bit arduous on myself. However I nonetheless felt responsible," Lammy added.

Nonetheless, he recalled, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer invited Zelenskyy to London after the row on the White Home.

"That embrace with Keir [Starmer – ed.] – I nonetheless really feel fairly emotional once I give it some thought – was a second the place the entire world breathed a sigh of aid," remembers Lammy.

Starmer and Zelenskyy hugging on the Downing Road pavement, he stated, was the "epitome of Britain being again within the place the worldwide group needs us: bridge constructing, a glue, with a historical past that helps join us to a lot of the world".

Background:

• UK PM Keir Starmer additionally just lately recalled Zelenskyy’s go to to London, which occurred after his spat with Donald Trump on the White Home.
• On 28 February, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy left the White Home forward of schedule after a dispute with Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
• A number of world leaders, together with French President Emmanuel Macron, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, expressed their help for Ukraine and Zelenskyy.
• European leaders and the EU management additionally rallied spherical to help Ukraine after the row within the White Home.

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