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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editor

Trump’s change in tone is valuable to Ukraine – but more than words are needed

Donald Trump speaking alongside the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, at the UN general assembly in New York on Wednesday 24 September.
Donald Trump speaking alongside the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, at the UN general assembly in New York on Wednesday 24 September. Photograph: Alexander Drago/Reuters

Who can keep up? In a single social media post, Donald Trump declared that Kyiv’s under-pressure military could, in fact, “WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form”.

On the plus side, from Ukraine’s perspective, the comments do suggest the US president has definitively abandoned his effort to persuade it to give up Donetsk province for a loose promise of ceasefire talks from Moscow – which was briefly the outcome of his Alaska summit with Vladimir Putin.

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