Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev taunted European leaders at the start of Tuesday and accused them of failure to “surpass” US President Donald Trump during their meeting with Ukrainian President Volodyymyr Zenskyy in the White House.
“The Anti-Russian hot-oranging Coalition of the Willing did not succeed in surpassing @potus on his peat,” wrote Medvedev on X, in English.
The “Coalition of the Willing” refers to a group of European leaders who have formed a pact to support a peace agreement in Ukraine. Those leaders during the Monday meeting were French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Finnish President Alexander Stubb.
NATO Secretary -General Mark Rutte and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen were also present.
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The deputy chairman Dmitry Medvedev of the Russian Council of Russia attends a meeting of the Council for Science and Education at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in the city of Dubna in the Moscow region, Russia on 13 June 2024. (Sputnik/Alexei Maishev/Pool via Reuters)
Medvedev claimed that these leaders supposedly “thanked” and “sucked up” to President Trump.
The interrogation that is left now, said Medvedev, was “which tune” Zenskyy – whom he sparkled as “The Kiev Clown” – “will play at home about guarantees and areas as soon as he has set up his green military uniform again.”
Washington, DC – August 18: US President Donald Trump is organizing a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron (L) in the White House in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
The Monday meeting came after the historic top of Trump with Putin in Anchorage, Alaska last Friday. After the White House meeting, Trump said he had spoken with Putin to coordinate the following steps in the peace process aimed at ending the years of war in Ukraine.
Trump wrote on his social platform of the truth and said he had called his Russian counterpart to start with “the schemes for a meeting” with Zenskyy. That would then be followed by a trilateral meeting between the two warring presidents and the United States.
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The Republican President also confirmed that the US would support European security guarantees that were aimed at preventing Moscow to re -add Ukraine as soon as the war ends.
President Donald Trump meets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy in the Oval Office in the White House, Monday, August 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Trump was caught on a hot microphone earlier in the day and told Macron that Putin wanted to find a resolution to put an end to the war, although a Russian official who later patted comments.
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Russian state media, referring to Putin’s Foreign Business Consultant Yuri Ushakov, said that Putin “had spoken for” about continuing direct conversations between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations.
