The difficult choices facing Ukraine's Zelensky

Should he apologise to Trump or even resign? The options for Ukraine's leader are looking increasingly thin.

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After last Friday's disastrous meeting in the Oval Office, it seems nothing that he says goes down well with President Donald Trump. And now the US has suspended aid to Ukraine, his options are looking increasingly thin.

Even a former close Republican ally in the US, Senator Lindsey Graham, has turned on him, suggesting "he either needs to resign and send somebody over that we can do business with, or he needs to change".

What kind of change might that be - or should he resign if that's the price of US support?

This option seems Zelensky's most likely way out and Ukraine's prime minister now says Kyiv is open to talks on signing a minerals deal with the US.

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