Rubio Says Zelenskyy Should Apologize for Turning Meeting Into ‘Fiasco’

Rubio said he believes that the relationship between Trump and Zelenskyy can be repaired, if Ukraine wants to achieve an enduring and lasting peace.
Rubio Says Zelenskyy Should Apologize for Turning Meeting Into ‘Fiasco’
U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meet in the Oval Office, watched by Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in the White House on Feb. 28, 2025. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
Kimberly Hayek
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy should apologize after a heated meeting with President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance at the White House on Friday.
“I think he should apologize for wasting our time for a meeting that was going to end the way it did,” Rubio told CNN on Friday night.

Zelenskyy should apologise for “turning this thing into the fiasco for him that it became,” he said. “There was no need for him to go in there and become antagonistic.”

The goal of the meeting was to finalize an economic agreement for the United States to gain access to Ukraine’s natural resources. That deal never came to be.
Kimberly Hayek
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Kimberly Hayek is a reporter for The Epoch Times. She covers California news and has worked as an editor and on scene at the U.S.-Mexico border during the 2018 migrant caravan crisis.