His allies slammed on Ukraine's Zelenskyy after Trump's leadership and suggested he might need to resign

Phoenix (AP) – President Donald Trump's senior aides and allies slammed Washington's Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who participated in international military support for the Russian invasion at a European summit in London on Sunday.

After Trump's leadership, White House officials and Republicans used news shows to face in Congress, demanding that Zelenskyy show more thanks to our support and to express concessions to the potential war ending. Some suggested that Zelenskyy should consider resigning even if the Ukrainians gathered around him.

But they have hardly made clear what Zelenskyy and Ukraine can do after Friday’s Oval Office meeting, where Trump and Vice President JD Vance expressed responsibility to him before canceling the signature of the economic agreement between Washington and Kiev. The dispute leaves behind a future about the relationship and the prospect of ending the conflict that the Kremlin invaded in February 2022.

White House national security adviser Mike Waltz went to Ukraine to meet Zelenskyy in Ukraine in the first year of the war and once compared him to wartime British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, saying Zelenskyy's behavior at the White House was “incredibly disrespectful.”

Asked about Churchill-Zelenskyy's comparison, Waltz noted that Churchill was resigned in the last months of World War II.

Churchill “was alone for a moment, but he didn’t transition to the next stage in England,” Waltz said. “It is unclear whether President Zelenskyy (especially after what he saw on Friday) is ready to transition to Ukraine to end the war, negotiate and have to compromise.”

Walz said the end of the war would involve territorial concessions in Ukraine and “security assured Russian offers”, but he did not provide further details on what Moscow would do.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-la. Respond to Zelenskyy's suggestion that he might need to resign.

“Either he needs to master his senses and go back to the table gratefully, or others need to lead the country to do it,” Johnson said. “I mean, the Ukrainians have to figure it out. But I can tell you that we are re-engaging peace through strength.”

Trump's National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard said the controversial meeting caused “a huge rift in a relationship”, which she and Zelenskyy questioned, and later told Fox News that he didn't think he did anything wrong.

“I think any interest in the sincere negotiations must be rebuilt before President Trump is willing to re-engage in this,” she said.

The pressure campaign in Washington played a role as Zelenskyy and European leaders reformed Trump’s foreign policy toward the U.S. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the UK will use £1.6 billion ($2 billion) of export financing to provide 5,000 air defense missiles to Ukraine.

Congressional Republicans have little support for Zelenskyy after the Oval Office meeting. But Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski is one of the few Republican lawmakers willing to break with Trump publicly and criticize the Republican president's position on the Ukrainians.

“I know foreign policy is not for the faint of heart, but now, I have stomach problems because the government seems to be away from our allies and embrace Putin, a threat to democracy and American values ​​around the world,” Mukowski wrote on X on Saturday.

Senator James Rankford (R-Okla).

Others support Zelenskyy more.

I-VT Senator Bernie Sanders said thousands of Americans were “will be embarrassed and ashamed”.

“Our job is to defend our 250-year tradition of becoming a world democratic leader, rather than turning to a tough country that strives to do the right thing,” Sanders said.

Waltz appears in CNN's “League State”, with Johnson, Sanders and Rankford in NBC's “Meet the Media” while Gabbard speaks on “Fox News Sunday”