Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet with his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, at the United Nations General Assembly this afternoon on the heels of a shift from Trump on his stance on the war in Ukraine.
Trump said in a social media post yesterday that he now thinks Ukraine can win back its territory to its original borders, a reversal from his past position that the country would need to make some territorial concessions in order to bring an end to the war with Russia.
Trump wrote that he thinks Ukraine, “with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form.”
The president added that Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, are in “BIG Economic trouble, and this is the time for Ukraine to act.”
Putin spokesman Dimitry Peskov dismissed Trump’s comments in an interview with Russia’s RBC Radio.
“The dynamics are obvious,” Peskov said. “Our forces along the entire front line are in a state of fairly confident advancement.”
Peskov added, “The Russian economy has largely been restructured to meet the needs of the special military operation in such a way that all the front’s needs are more than covered.”
