US President Donald Trump’s parting shot in his explosive meeting with Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky last week was: “This is going to be great television.”
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But for Ukrainians living in China and watching their country battle Russia, it was painful and outrageous.
Tensions escalated last Friday as the Trump team criticised Zelensky for wearing battle fatigues to the Oval Office meeting and accused him of a lack of gratitude for American support as his country fought Russia.
Julia, a 36-year-old from central Ukraine working as a sourcing manager in Shanghai, was left outraged.
“That was the most shameful behaviour ever displayed towards anyone at that high level,” she said.
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The Ukrainian people did not owe gratitude to the US after Kyiv agreed to give up its nuclear weapons in 1994 based on American-backed assurances of territorial sovereignty, she added.