US president’s assertion that Kyiv can regain all land lost to Russia can only be achieved through more direct help on the battlefield
Who can keep up? In a single social media post, Donald Trump declared that Kyiv’s under-pressure military could, in fact, “WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form”.
On the plus side, from Ukraine’s perspective, the comments do suggest the US president has definitively abandoned his effort to persuade it to give up Donetsk province for a loose promise of ceasefire talks from Moscow – which was briefly the outcome of his Alaska summit with Vladimir Putin.
