The Kremlin on Wednesday rejected the central arguments for U.S. President Donald Trump's rhetorical U-turn on the war in Ukraine, with Volodymyr Zelenskyy set to address the UN General Assembly on Wednesday morning.

The Ukrainian president has been urging the U.S. to ramp up sanctions pressure on Russia to coerce it into entering negotiations to end the war it launched in on Ukraine in February 2022 — a call he repeated at the United Nations so far this week before his address to the assembly.

In an abrupt rhetorical shift in Ukraine's favour, Trump said Tuesday he believed that Kyiv could recapture all of its land and that it should act now, with Moscow facing "big" economic problems. He also gave support to shooting down Russian drones that enter NATO airspace. WATCH | Trump bolster

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