https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgr2g4n4wvdo
"Whether or not President Volodymyr Zelensky was ambushed or should have been more diplomatic in the Oval Office, it was a disastrous visit for Ukraine.
For those watching in Kyiv, the future of their country hung in the balance.
"It was an emotional conversation, but I understand our president," Yulia tells me next to Kyiv's golden-domed St Sofia's cathedral.
"Maybe it wasn't diplomatic, but it was sincere. It's about life, we want to live."
Yulia reflects a political pattern in Ukraine: the more the country is attacked, the more unity there is.
Before the full-scale invasion in 2022, President Zelensky's trust rating was 37%. Afterwards, it rocketed to 90%.
Before Donald Trump returned to office at the start of 2025, it was 52%. After he blamed Ukraine for starting the war, it hit 65%....
Her European Solidarity Party's chairman is former President Petro Poroshenko, a fierce rival to Zelensky.
He was even recently sanctioned by Ukraine's leader over what Ukraine's security service labelled as "threats to national security" and "creating obstacles to economic development". Mr Poroshenko said it was "politically motivated".
Despite this, the former president said he recognised Zelensky's legitimacy as leader, to combat both American and Russian claims to the contrary...."