Trump and Vance have never seen war up close, but are still disgusted by it. They seem to have felt Zelensky, soaked in war’s horror for three years, needed a lecture about the peace anyone who had seen war would yearn for.

The remarkable scene of a vice president injecting himself into a tense diplomatic discussion suggested that JD Vance does not want to be relegated to the B-team of the Trump administration.

President Donald Trump says it's up to Europe to provide security guarantees for Ukraine and there will be no guarantees of Washington's involvement Trump also confirms that President Volodymyr Zelensky will visit the Oval Office on Friday to sign a "very big" agreement on sharing Ukraine's mineral resources