RUSSIA calls itself a “real bear” hitting back at “deeply mistaken” Trump while a battle of egos over the Ukraine war continues.
The Kremlin said it had “no choice” but to continue the conflict in Ukraine after Trump called the country a “paper tiger”.
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The comments have come after Trump fully backed Ukraine’s ability to reclaim all lost territory.
In Trump’s speech at the United Nations on Tuesday, he insulted Putin’s nation, calling it a “paper tiger” with a failing economy.
The shock backfli[p comes after Trump met with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenksy earlier in the day.
The Don further said Ukraine could win back “every inch” of its territory from Russia.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov hit back at Trump’s claims that the two nations had been “fighting aimlessly for three and a half years”.
“We are continuing our special military operation to ensure our interests and achieve the goals [set by Putin]”, Peskov said in a radio interview.
“We are doing this for both the present and the future of our country.
“For many generations to come. Therefore we have no alternative.”
In a major pivot from his previous stance on the three-and-a-half-year conflict, Trump also dismissed Russia’s military strength and mocked its inability to beat Ukraine in just a few days.
Posting on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump said Ukraine “may be able to take back their country in its original form and, who knows, maybe even go further than that”.