India, March 4 -- President Donald Trump, who has halted all US military assistance to Ukraine, is now declining to hold meetings with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky until the latter issues a public apology.

According to Fox News' White House correspondent Peter Doocy, a top White House official informed him that nothing will be taken forward on the U.S.-Ukraine minerals deal until the Ukrainian leader "goes in front of cameras and makes an explicit public apology for the way he behaved in the Oval Office."

Trump and Zelensky were scheduled to discuss continued American aid to Ukraine in the war against Russia and work out an agreement for the war-torn nation to give the US natural resource revenues. However, Zelensky walk...