"This afternoon's outrageous display from the US President and the Vice President was disgraceful and downright un-American," Senator Jeanne Shaheen (Democrat), one of the leaders of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wrote on her X page.

"This afternoon's outrageous display from the US President and the Vice President was disgraceful and downright un-American. Once again, they've sided with a murderous thug, Putin, over our democratic ally, Ukraine. I stand with Zelenskyy and Ukraine's noble fight for freedom and democracy," -she wrote.