The Kremlin has announced it has “no alternative” but to continue waging war, as it pushed back on United States President Donald Trump’s sudden sea change towards Ukraine that saw him brand Russia a “paper tiger”.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov hit back at Trump’s claim that Ukraine could in effect win the war, declaring on Wednesday that Russia would be continuing its offensive on Ukraine “to ensure our interests and achieve the goals”.

“We are doing this for both the present and the future of our country. For many generations to come. Therefore, we have no alternative,” he said in a radio interview with Russia’s RBC radio station.

Tuesday had seen Trump throw his weight behind Ukraine after a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the United Nations Ge

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