## Closing summary
13.27 EST

1 Mar 2025

Protesters gathered in **Waitsfield, Vermont**, on Saturday to protest vice president **JD Vance**, who is visiting the state with his family for a ski trip.

The demonstration the morning after the clash between Ukrainian president **Volodymyr Zelenskyy** and **Donald Trump**, who was joined by Vance in the Oval Office.

Some of the demonstrators are part of Indivisible, a left-wing political group founded in response to Donald Trump’s election as president in 2016.

> “For the record, I have never met Zelenskyy and never spoken to him. Ever. Or advised him or anybody around him,” she said in a .

The conspiracy claims that Rice, **Antony Blinken, Victoria Nuland,** and **Alexander Vindman** advised Zelenskyy to “stand strong” and be “tough” against Trump.

**Worth noting:** The initial claim, posted by a pro-Trump author on social media, provided no source or evidence and was later acknowledged by herself as speculation.

13.57 EST

1 Mar 2025

Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet King Charles on Sunday as part of his visit to the UK.

He is due to speak to the king on the same day as Keir Starmer’s defence summit of European leaders in London.

It will take place at Sandringham, the Sun newspaper reported.

At Downing Street on Saturday, Zelenskyy said: “With pleasure, thank you very much Keir, Mr Prime Minister, happy to be here.

Really, I saw a lot of people, and I want to thank you, people of the United Kingdom, such big support from the very beginning of this war, thank you, your team.

And I’m very happy that His Majesty the King accepted my meeting tomorrow, and I’m thankful that you organised such great summit for tomorrow.

And we are very happy in  that we have such strategic partners, we’ve signed with you historic document.”

The prime minister interjected “the 100-year agreement” before the Ukrainian president continued: “Yeah, we have only with you such documents, with the United Kingdom, so we’re happy and we count on your support and really, really, really happy that we have such partners and such friends.”

Starmer added “fantastic” and the two leaders shook hands.

13.53 EST

1 Mar 2025

President Zelenskyy told Starmer “we count on your support” and said he was thankful to the UK.

13.42 EST

1 Mar 2025

Keir Starmer told Ukrainian president  he has “full backing across the United Kingdom and we stand with Ukraine for as long as it may take” as the pair met inside Downing Street on Saturday evening.

13.46 EST

1 Mar 2025

The Ukrainian president, , has arrived in Downing Street for bilateral talks with Keir Starmer.


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