Myroslava Petsa and Daniel Wittenberg
BBC Ukrainian, in the Oval Office

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The day began with the same cordial routine the White House reserves for visiting foreign dignitaries.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was welcomed by President Donald Trump at the door of the West Wing with an honour guard, and the leaders shook hands politely.

We were in the Oval Office as part of Ukrainian media pool, witnessing the well-rehearsed formalities.

Zelensky presented President Trump with the championship belt of Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk.

Trump complimented Zelensky's clothing.

So far, so diplomatic.

But minutes later, what erupted was unprecedented to say the least. The genial tone devolved into acrimony and chaos. Voices were raised, eyes rolled, aspersions were cast - and all in front of the world's TV cameras.

Journalists in the room watched with gaping mouths, as extraordinary exchanges followed.

Afterwards, our American colleagues remarked that they had never seen anything like it. "A scene like this was simply unimaginable in the White House," one told me.

Continue reading: What it was like in the room during the shouting match

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White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt has said the American people are "sick and tired of footing" the bill for Ukraine.

"He [Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky] refuses to recognise the practical reality of this war," says Leavitt to reporters outside the White House. "It has been going on for years, his countrymen are dying, and the people who have been funding this effort - the American people - are sick and tired of footing this bill."

Zelensky, she adds, finds himself in a "much different situation" now than in 2022, when the war in Ukraine began.

"The cards are not in his favour. They are in President Trump's favour," she says, adding Trump has different priorities than the last US administration and wants an end to the war.

"It doesn't seem like Zelensky wants that quite yet," she says.

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Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine just over three years ago.

On 24 February 2022, 200,000 Russian soldiers entered the country - with President Vladimir Putin claiming at the time that he would take the capital of Kyiv in a matter of days.

Putin has repeatedly claimed that the "special military operation" was aimed at "denazifying" Ukraine and preventing Nato expansion.

In the years that have followed, millions of Ukrainians have fled and tens of thousands of military service members on both sides are believed to have been killed or injured.

Russia has taken swathes of Ukrainian territory in the east. In 2014, the year widely considered the true start of the conflict, Moscow annexed Crimea, a Black Sea peninsula internationally recognised as part of Ukraine, after the overthrow of Ukraine's pro-Russian president.

In response to the conflict, Western nations have targeted Russia's oligarchs and businesses with sweeping sanctions, as well as supplying Ukraine with vital military and other aid.

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Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State, just appeared on CNN for an interview.

Speaking to the network's programme "The Source", Rubio describes the meeting earlier today between Presidents Donald Trump and Volodomyr Zelensky as a "fiasco" and said the Ukrainian leader should apologise.

“There was no need for him to go in there and become antagonistic,” Rubio says of Zelensky.

“When you start talking about that aggressively – and the president is a deal maker, he made deals his entire life – you’re not going to get people to the table,” he says.

Rubio then adds: "You start to perceive that maybe Zelensky doesn’t want a peace deal. He says he does, but maybe he doesn’t."

Trump-Zelensky row signals major crisis for Natopublished at 01:31 Greenwich Mean Time 1 March

01:31 GMT 1 March

Jeremy Bowen
International Editor

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The relationship between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky was bad enough before the shouting match in the Oval Office.

President Trump had already called him a dictator and said Ukraine started the war - which is a lie.

Now the US-Ukraine alliance nurtured by Joe Biden is in pieces.

The public breakdown also signals a major crisis looming between European members of Nato and the US.

There will be many more doubts and questions about the US commitment to European security outside Ukraine. The biggest is whether President Trump would keep the promise his predecessor Harry Truman made in 1949 to treat an attack on a Nato ally as an attack on America.

Those concerns are based on what appears to be Trump's determination to restore a strong relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

He has put heavy pressure on Ukraine while offering Putin big concessions - that would have to be made by the Ukrainians.

The security of Ukraine is coming a poor second - and Europeans are worrying theirs is too.

• Read more: Trump-Zelensky row signals major crisis for Nato

Myroslava Petsa
BBC News Ukrainian, in Washington DC

The Ukrainian delegation here in Washington has gone quiet.

A planned appearance by President Zelensky at a think tank earlier this evening was cancelled at the last minute – after the buffet had already been served.

Ukrainian officials are still trying to process what happened today.

But there’s no doubt in government circles that this trip has gone terribly wrong.

A day that was meant to bring about a new chapter in US-Ukraine relations has ended with the two sides in uncharted territory.

US support has proven critical for Ukraine’s survival – President Zelensky said as much on Fox News this evening.

He heads to London on Saturday to meet UK prime minister Sir Keir Starmer, an important ally.

But Kyiv will be thinking hard about how to salvage damaged relations with their most important partner - the United States.

Chris Mason
Political editor

A No 10 spokeswoman says:

“The prime minister has tonight spoken to both President Trump and President Zelensky.

“He retains unwavering support for Ukraine, and is doing all he can to find a path forward to a lasting peace based on sovereignty and security for Ukraine.

“The prime minister looks forward to hosting international leaders on Sunday including President Zelensky.”

Vitaliy Shevchenko
BBC Monitoring's Russia editor

Here's a look at some of the Ukrainian reaction to the tense meeting in the White House.

Political commentator Volodymyr Fesenko tells Ukrainian TV: “President Zelensky’s nerves probably failed him. He should have been more restrained and flexible, especially reacting to JD Vance. And it’s best not to argue with Trump”.

Ukrainian journalist Illia Ponomarenko also weighs in: "It's just shameful. They are shamelessly bending over backward to find anything—anything at all—to pick at in Zelensky," he wrote on X.

"And all of this is happening in front of the entire world, before the global press, live on air. They are trying everything on earth to break Zelensky".

Officials in Ukraine have also responded. Maksym Kozytsky, head of regional administration in western Lviv region, writes: “I’ve been watching the events in Washington closely. England had Richard the Lionheart, we have Volodymyr the Lionheart.”

Brandon Livesay
Reporting from New York

Hello and welcome to our continued coverage of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's dramatic visit to Washington DC.

What was supposed to be a diplomatic trip to sign a rare minerals deal with the US turned into a fiery clash in the Oval Office - with Zelensky on one side and US President Donald Trump and Vice-President JD Vance on the other.

In front of them was a room full of media, watching on in shock as the trio argued and talked over each other.

No minerals deal was signed, and Zelensky was told to leave the White House.

Later in the day, Trump told reporters that he did not think Zelensky wanted peace and that the Ukrainian leader had overplayed his hand.

Not long after that, Zelensky appeared on US TV network Fox News and said he had regrets over how that meeting played out, but that he thought the relationship could be salvaged.

If you would like to read through how a truly extraordinary day in global politics played out, you can revisit our coverage here.

Stick with us as we continue to bring you the latest.