Day after Friday’s blowup between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Oval Office, Russia’s foreign ministry termed Ukrainian President’s visit to Washington DC a “complete diplomatic failure of Kyiv”.

“The visit … to Washington on February 28 is a complete political and diplomatic failure by the Kyiv regime,” Kremlin Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a written statement published on Saturday on the ministry’s website.

Zakharova further added that the Ukrainian president is “obsessed” with prolonging the war and adds that Moscow’s goals remain “demilitarisation” of Ukraine and annexation of all territories currently occupied by Russia.

“With his outrageously rude behaviour during his stay in Washington, Zelenskyy confirmed that he is the most dangerous threat to the world community as an irresponsible instigator of a major war,” Zakharova claimed.

“The sooner Kyiv and certain European capitals realise this, the closer a peaceful resolution of the Ukrainian crisis will be.”