A raised-voice spat on Friday be-tween Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky sent shockwaves across the world, with the undiplomatic shouting match casting doubts over efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war.
The US president openly berated Zelen-sky for not being "thankful", later accus-ing the Ukrainian leader of "not being ready for peace" and having "disre-spected" the United States in the "cher-ished Oval Office".
Here are some of the political reactions from around the world.
"For the first time, Trump told the truth to the cocaine clown's face," said former president Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia's security council, referring to Zelensky.
Kirill Dmitriev, one of Moscow's negotia-tors in the first high-level talks between Russian and US officials since the Kremlin sent troops into Ukraine, brand-ed the spat between the two leaders as "historic".
Ukraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said Zelensky was "right" as "peace without guarantees is not possi-ble".
"Cease-fire without guarantees is the way to Russian occupation of the entire European continent," Shmygal wrote on X.
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday if that if there was "an ag-gressor" in the Ukraine war, it was Rus-sia.
"There is an aggressor which is Russia. There is an aggressed people which is Ukraine," Macron told journalists, add-ing: "We were all right to help Ukraine and sanction Russia three years ago and to continue to do so."
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said his country would stand by war-torn Ukraine after the row.
"Ukraine, Spain stands with you," Sanchez, a staunch backer of Ukraine since Russia's 2022 invasion who pledged one billion euros of aid in a visit to Kyiv this week, wrote on X.
Staunch Kyiv ally Poland moved to re-assure Ukrainians after the dispute.
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