Seriously?
Donald Trump utterance’s on this IS HARD to Believe…..
WTF Happened?
We’ll see if he sticks to this or changes his mind like he tends to do….
Trump has for years expressed empathy for Russian President Vladimir Putin even as he called for an end to the war, and Tuesday’s comments amounted to his strongest public support yet for Kyiv. The remarks, which came on an afternoon that he met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, went beyond what even many Ukrainian policymakers privately acknowledge is the likelihood that they will not regain full control of their territory anytime soon.
Just a month ago, Trump rolled out the red carpet for Putin in a warm encounter in Anchorage — and he has spent the ensuing weeks trying unsuccessfully to pressure the Russian leader into a meeting with Zelensky as the Kremlin escalates attacks on Ukraine. Trump’s comments on social media, reemphasized to reporters soon after, highlighted the mercurial nature of his efforts to end the war.
“I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form,”…
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Republican Lawmakers ‘Love’ this ‘talk’……
Senate Republican foreign policy hawks praised President Trump on Tuesday for posting that he believes Ukraine can “win” the war against Russia and take back all of its lost territory.
Why it maters: It’s a notable shift from Trump on the conflict, but many traditional Republicans on the Hill have been pushing for it even as MAGA isolationist influences have grown.
Several key GOP congressional leaders on foreign policy were quick to back up the president’s new confidence in Ukraine.
- “President Trump’s strong speech and post today show why he’s the peace-through-strength President,” Senate Intelligence Chair Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) told Axios in a statement.
- Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) wrote on X that “Trump is correct in assessing that the Russian economy is under stress and this will only get worse if we make buying cheap Russian oil and gas toxic for those who choose that path.” Graham has led the charge on a bipartisan Russia sanctions bill.
- Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) posted: “President Trump and I believe Ukraine can win – a fact President Biden avoided saying for years. It is time to ramp up pressure on Putin to end this senseless bloodshed.”
Between the lines: Congressional leaders have been waiting on the green light from the White House to move on a broadly bipartisan sanctions package….
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday he believes that US President Donald Trump could help change Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s stance on Russia’s war in Ukraine. “I think that President Trump can change the attitude of Xi Jinping to this war, because China, we don’t feel that China wants to finish this war,” Zelenskyy told Fox News’ Special Report after meeting Trump on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The US has highlighted China and India as contributors to the Russia-Ukraine war due to their ongoing purchases of oil from Moscow.
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Zelenskyy told the UN security council that China could pressure Russia to end the war in his country. China is not a party to the conflict, but Kyiv has long complained that Beijing has supplied items to Moscow that can be used in its war against Ukraine, and continues to purchase Russian energy. “If China truly wanted this war to stop, it could compel Moscow to end the invasion. Without China, Putin’s Russia is nothing.”
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Donald Trump has said he believes Ukraine can regain all the land that it has lost since the 2022 Russian invasion in one of the strongest statements of support he has given Kyiv. The US president delivered his upbeat assessment by claiming Russia was in big economic trouble in a post on Truth Social after meeting the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in New York. “Russia has been fighting aimlessly for three and a half years a War that should have taken a Real Military Power less than a week to win. This is not distinguishing Russia,” Trump said on Truth Social, adding that Putin and Russia were in “big economic trouble.” Zelenskyy welcomed Trump’s “big shift” on Russia.
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Russia is launching long-range drones into the airspace of Nato countries to probe the military alliance’s air defences and search for weak points, Zelenskyy said Tuesday. “He will try to find weak places in Europe, in Nato countries, he will try to do it,” Zelensky said at a press conference at the United Nations.
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Russian authorities have subjected civilian detainees in Ukrainian areas it occupies to “widespread” and “systematic” torture, including sexual violence, the United Nations said Tuesday. A UN rights office report concluded that Russia “has subjected Ukrainian civilian detainees to consistent patterns of serious violations” of international law since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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Ukraine’s energy ministry called for decisive international action to secure the removal of occupying Russian forces from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, after all external power lines were cut off for the 10th time. “Today’s incident once again proves that the Russian occupation is the main threat to the safe operation of the Zaporizhzhia NPP,” the ministry said in a statement…..
ISW….Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 23, 2025
- US President Donald Trump expressed confidence in Ukraine’s ability to fully liberate all of its internationally recognized territory that Russia currently occupies, following a bilateral meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
- The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) publicly acknowledged Russia’s intent to advance further into Kharkiv Oblast should Russian forces seize Kupyansk, supporting ISW’s assessment of Russia’s operational intent.
- The Russian MoD’s September 23 statement undermines repeated Russian claims that Russia’s main military objective and territorial demands in Ukraine are limited to Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson oblasts.
- The Russian MoD may be issuing this statement about Russian operational intent to justify ongoing Russian operations to seize Kupyansk to Russian society and frontline forces.
- Ukrainian forces recently advanced near Borova, Novopavlivka and in the Dobropillya tactical area and western Zaporizhia Oblast. Russian forces recently advanced in northern Kharkiv Oblast and in the Kostyantynivka-Druzhkivka tactical area and near Siversk.
Daily Kos grunt report for Today….