US president Donald Trump during a meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Ukraine's president, at the White House last Friday. Photograph: Aaron Schwartz/Sipa/Bloomberg
Donald Trump urged Volodymyr Zelenskiy to accept Russia’s terms for ending its war in a volatile White House meeting on Friday, warning that Vladimir Putin had said he would “destroy” Ukraine if it did not agree.
The meeting between the US and Ukrainian presidents descended many times into a “shouting match”, with Mr Trump “cursing all the time”, people familiar with the matter said.
They added that the US president tossed aside maps of the frontline in Ukraine, insisted Mr Zelenskiy surrender the entire Donbas region to Mr Putin, and repeatedly echoed talking points the Russian leader had made in their call a day earlier.
Though Mr Trump later endorsed a freeze of the current front lines, the acrimonious meeting appeared to refl
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