As high-stakes peace negotiations continued in Geneva, tensions briefly flared between Washington and Kyiv after President Donald Trump criticised Ukraine for showing “zero gratitude” for U.S. support.

With most Ukrainians rejecting a surrender, he would court a crisis with his own military if he accepted major concessions to Russia.

Corruption probes have on occasion targeted Zelensky’s administration, and he has often clashed with the agency behind the latest one, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU). But no investigation has posed a greater threat to the president’s standing among the people of Ukraine,

Over nearly four years of wartime leadership, analysts say the Ukrainian leader has repeatedly played weak hands wisely. A U.S. peace plan may be his biggest test.

Virginia Democrat Sen. Mark Warner spoke out against President Trump's latest proposal to end the war in Ukraine during an interview with Shannon Bream on "FOX News Sunday." SHANNON BREAM, FOX NEWS: Okay,

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday appeared to soften his tone toward Washington after US President Donald Trump publicly accused Kyiv of showing “zero gratitude” for United State’s latest peace proposal amid sensitive Geneva-based negotiations to end the war with Russia.

An anti-Zelensky political coalition is coalescing as the president’s allies are accused of enriching themselves while the country’s soldiers die on the battlefield.