Kyiv, Ukraine – United States President Donald Trump has abruptly shifted his view on the Russian-Ukrainian war by saying Kyiv could restore its borders.

For the first time, Trump said on Tuesday that Ukraine could win back the one-fifth of its territory it has lost to Russia since the 2014 annexation of Crimea and the Kremlin’s support to separatists and its 2022 full-scale invasion.

“Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social network.

But political and military analysts are sceptical about his newfound conviction.

Trump’s words absolutely do not signal a U-turn, according to Volodymyr Fesenko, head of the Kyiv-based Penta think tank.

“Don’t consider Trump’s words as a

See Full Page