A meeting that was supposed to bolster the flimsy trust between Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Donald Trump descended instead into an extraordinary slanging match in the Oval Office in front of the world’s media. After a dismal couple of weeks bracketing this week’s third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the meeting in the White House opened about as badly as it could possibly have done. Instead of the world’s biggest superpower being his friend, Ukraine’s beleaguered leader now finds himself squeezed between US and Russian leaders who seem to agree more with each other than with him.
一場本應加強烏克蘭總統弗拉迪米爾•澤倫斯基(Volodymyr Zelenskyy)與美國總統唐納•川普(Donald Trump)之間脆弱信任的會議，卻在白宮橢圓形辦公室上演了一場非同尋常的爭吵，面對全球媒體。在經歷了幾周的低迷之後，這周是俄羅斯全面入侵烏克蘭三週年紀念日，這次白宮會議的開場幾乎糟糕到了極點。烏克蘭這位飽受困擾的領導人發現自己被夾在美國和俄羅斯領導人之間，他們似乎更傾向於彼此達成共識，而不是與他站在同一陣線。