 "Pro-Ukraine protests erupt across US after Trump, Vance 'ambushed' Zelenskyy in White House")
Pro-Ukrainian protests erupted across the United States soon after US President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the White House. Hundreds of protesters gathered in Waitsfield, Vermont, on Saturday morning to oppose the VP’s visit to the state for a ski trip with family.
According to The Guardian, the demonstration had been planned earlier in the week by the Mad River Valley chapter of Indivisible. It is a grassroots organising group. The group was joined by additional protesters who said they were motivated to join after watching Vance and Trump’s combative White House meeting with Zelenskyy on Friday.
The protesters held up signs reading “Vermont stands with Ukraine” and “International embarrassment”. Meanwhile, many waved the Ukrainian flag to express solidarity with the war-stricken Eastern European nation. “After what he did yesterday, he crossed the line,” protester Cori Giroux told Vermont Public Radio.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Waitsfield on Saturday morning to protest Vice President JD Vance, who is visiting Vermont with his family for a ski trip this weekend.
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Vance’s family flees to an undisclosed location
Meanwhile, the VP, who admitted on Friday that he had never been to Ukraine, fled to an undisclosed location to evade protesters. On Thursday, Vermont Governor Phil Scott, a Republican who refused to vote for Trump in any of his three runs for the White House, issued a statement calling on Vermonters to be respectful of Vance and his family during their visit.
“Please join me in welcoming them to Vermont and hoping they have an opportunity to experience what makes our state, and Vermonters, so special,” he said. Some commentators pushed an anecdote that when Russia started its invasion of Ukraine, Zelenskyy was returning to Kyiv, which was still “under attack”.
Leading Democratic lawmakers have also been expressing support for Zelenskyy. Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut went on to describe the Oval Office meeting as an “ambush” for the Ukrainian leader. The aggressive meeting also led to protests in New York, Los Angeles and Boston, where hundreds gathered to express their support for Ukraine and Zelenskyy.
Videos posted on social networks showed hundreds of demonstrators gathered in New York’s Times Square, many carrying the blue-and-yellow flag of Ukraine on their backs. Meanwhile, in LA, a pro-Ukraine crowd rallied in front of a SpaceX facility, and protesters in Boston held an “emergency rally” for “fair peace” for Ukraine at Boston Common.
“Ukraine wants fair peace. Ukraine wants the war to end,” the group Boston Supports Ukraine wrote on Facebook. “Ukraine wants all of this on fair terms with security guarantees.”
With inputs from agencies.
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