The Kremlin shot back at US President Donald Trump on Wednesday with a sharp quip: Russia may face economic challenges, but it’s no 'paper tiger.'

“Russia is not a tiger. Russia is more often associated with a bear. There are no such things as paper bears. Russia is a real bear,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told RBK radio.

The remark was a direct response to Trump’s claim a day earlier that Russia’s struggles in Ukraine exposed it as a weak power in “BIG Economic trouble.”

Trump’s fresh broadside

Trump, after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the UN conference, declared Ukraine had a real chance to reclaim all its territory with EU and NATO support.

“Russia has been fighting aimlessly for three and a half years a war that should have taken a re

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