The US president’s public exchange of insults with Zelensky forms part of a rapid pivot towards Russia, welcomed by the Kremlin.
Vladimir Putin praised US negotiators in recent talks in Riyadh as “totally different” from past mediators. AP
Over three years of war, Russian President Vladimir Putin has refused to stray from his stringent demands that would undo the current European security architecture and in essence turn Ukraine into a failed state.
In just a week, Donald Trump has agreed to almost all of them.
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