<p>Berlin: A clash between US President <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House was a "manufactured escalation", Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday.</p><p>"It was not a spontaneous reaction to interventions by Zelenskyy, but obviously a manufactured escalation in this meeting in the Oval Office," Merz told a news conference in Hamburg.</p>.Kremlin says Zelenskyy unwilling to accept reality on the battlefield.<p>Merz, who is seeking to form a coalition after his conservatives won a snap election last month, said that Europe was now under pressure to act quickly.</p><p>"We must now show that we are in a position to act independently in Europe," he said.</p>
<p>Berlin: A clash between US President <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House was a "manufactured escalation", Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday.</p><p>"It was not a spontaneous reaction to interventions by Zelenskyy, but obviously a manufactured escalation in this meeting in the Oval Office," Merz told a news conference in Hamburg.</p>.Kremlin says Zelenskyy unwilling to accept reality on the battlefield.<p>Merz, who is seeking to form a coalition after his conservatives won a snap election last month, said that Europe was now under pressure to act quickly.</p><p>"We must now show that we are in a position to act independently in Europe," he said.</p>