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Martin Pengelly in Washington

Ukraine’s Zelenskiy ‘bombed’ first White House meeting with Biden, book says

Zelenskiy and Biden sitting in chairs in the Oval Office
The 1 September 2021 meeting between Biden and Zelenskiy in the Oval Office of the White House. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

In a development likely to cause consternation in Washington and Kyiv, an eagerly awaited new book says Volodymyr Zelenskiy “bombed” his first Oval Office meeting with Joe Biden.

The two men reportedly failed to establish a rapport as the Ukrainian leader’s demand to join Nato and “absurd analysis” of alliance dynamics left the US president “pissed off”.

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