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Zelensky's "confusion" that may have led to the famous clash in the Oval Office

2025-03-25 11:15:24Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

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A “mess-up” involving two completely different “gifts” that Volodymyr Zelensky brought to Donald Trump may have accidentally led to a public spat between the two presidents. It all happened during the now-famous Oval Office meeting between the two presidents.

Zelensky claims he had a gift that could have made everything much more peaceful from the start. He brought Trump the world heavyweight boxing champion belt, Oleksandr Usyk, a friend of the Ukrainian president.

Zelensky had the belt on a table near his right elbow and was about to hand it to Trump — a longtime boxing and martial arts fan. Instead, he grabbed a folder of photographs showing the horrific brutality of what his people had endured during the war with Russia.

US officials told Time that the photos, which Trump called "tough stuff," soured the meeting, giving Trump the impression that Zelensky was trying to shame or blame him for the people who were injured.

The Ukrainian president said he just wanted to make an emotional appeal to Trump. He has family, loved ones, children. He should feel the things that every person feels. What I wanted to show was my values,” Zelensky explained. “But then, well, the conversation went in a different direction.”

Zelensky admitted that he left Usyk's belt on the table he had placed it on in the Oval Office as he left and was not sure what happened to it. "Maybe it's still there," he said.

A White House source told Time that a staffer eventually retrieved the belt and placed it in Trump's private dining room with other gifts that have been presented to him.

Elsewhere in the interview, Zelensky said: "I believe that Russia managed to influence some people in the White House team through information. Their signal to the Americans was that the Ukrainians do not want to end the war and something must be done to force them."

The development comes after a meeting between Russian and American officials on a partial ceasefire in Ukraine ended after 12 hours of negotiations in Saudi Arabia, Russian state media said, as both sides in the conflict reported a wave of new attacks.


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