New Delhi, March 2 -- Russian leaders celebrated after US President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance delivered a harsh rebuke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a meeting in the Oval Office on Friday. Trump confronted Zelenskyy during a meeting that had been previously hyped as a historic moment.

Zelensky was in Washington to sign an agreement to jointly develop Ukraine's rich natural resources with the United States. The Ukrainian leader had seen the meeting with Trump and Vance as an opportunity to persuade the US not to side with Russian President Vladimir Putin in his war with Moscow's smaller neighbour. Instead, Zelenskiy was told to leave, and the agreement was left unsigned.

Dmitry Medvedev, former Russian ...