France’s prime minister has torn into U.S. President Donald Trump’s Oval Office thrashing of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by calling it a staggering show of “brutality.”

On Friday night, in the Oval Office of the White House, a staggering scene unfurled before the lenses of the entire world, marked by brutality, a desire to humiliate, with the goal of making Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fold through threats,

The comments follow Trump’s public clash in the Oval Office with Zelenskuy on Friday before what was expected to be the signing of an agreement on Ukraine’s rich natural resources. The deal was never signed after Trump and his vice president, JD Vance, assailed the visiting leader as lacking gratitude for US aid and being disrespectful.