Ukrainian president has learned Trump’s team demand positivity and there is little point in trying to ‘inject reality’
At a press briefing in Kyiv on Tuesday, explaining where initial US brokered peace negotiations had got to, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, struck a notably different tone. Long gone is the tetchiness on display in London in the aftermath of the Ukrainian leaders’ catastrophic trip to the White House. In its place was a degree of optimism so high that it could only be interpreted as political positioning.
Though he complained about comments made by Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy, that four Ukrainian regions wholly or partly occupied by Russia consisted of people who wanted Moscow’s rule in an “overwhelming majority” – these were “in line with the messages of the Kremlin” Zelenskyy said – he insisted that had advantages too.
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