Trump reverses Ukraine stance, now supports retaking Russian-occupied land

president Donald Trump This week, the international community shocked when he said that he turned his position in the war in Ukraine and said he believed Kiev could return all its occupied territory Russia.

In a comment on Tuesday on social media, he said: “I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position that enables it to fight and win all Ukraine in its original form.”

“With the passage of time, patience and financial support for Europe, especially the original borders in terms of this war, it is a large option,” he added. “Why not?”

This position is a blatant reflection from where he was standing when he returned for the first time in the office, and in The famous oval office meeting in February With Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinski, he told him that he was “[didn’t] Make the cards “to take over Russia, and repeat repeatedly that Kiev will need great concessions to end the war.

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Ukrainian President Foludmir Zelinski will meet President Donald Trump on the sidelines of UNGA in New York City on September 23, 2025. (Ukrainian presidency / news / Anadolu via Getty Images)

“We see that his approaches to Russia’s war on Ukraine have already changed significantly,” Yuri Sak, former defense advisor ZelinskiTell Fox News Digital. “We hope this change in its approach will be translated into more unity in terms of Western alliance and their support for Ukraine.”

The response to Trump’s change in the situation was met with mixed responses from senior security experts, as some see it as a positive transformation, while others, such as the head of the former CIA station, Dan Hoffman, said that the words alone will not have a major impact on the Russian president Vladimir Putin.

“Throughout the years I spent trying to see the world through KGB’s twisted eyes of Vladimir Putin … he does not care about words,” Hoffman said. “It is believed that he can use it against us.

“We did not deter him from the threat of Poland, Estonia, Copenhagen and Norway militarily-he did not deter the United States and NATO.

“He is trying to show that the United States does not have a weight to deter Russia to the threat of NATO members in Eastern Europe,” the Russian security expert said. “He wants to try to show Ukraine that the United States does not have the ability to display power in this part of the world. To show Ukraine” you don’t want to rely on the United States, stop fighting, and we will strike you anyway, we will benefit from you ” – this is where its strategy is.”

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President Donald Trump salutes Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 15, 2025, at an Elmendorf-Richardson joint base, Alaska. (Julia Demiri Nikhson/Associated Press)

Russia On Wednesday, he prepared Trump’s comments and suggested that he was “wrong” in his evaluation of how the war was offered.

“The dynamics on the front lines speak for themselves,” Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Kermlin, told reporters.

Russia has made some great progress in the front lines since early 2024. Although some small progress has been made this year, the front lines have remained largely frozen over the past 18 months.

Hoffman argued that if the United States wants to see Ukraine Progress has made, all restrictions imposed on the strike must be raised, and impose secondary sanctions immediately, instead of waiting for Europe to follow its example at one time, because it will take months to affect the Russian War box.

Washington must also think about the strong NATO allies, including Germany to provide Ukraine with long -range strike missiles, and Denmark to close the Danish strait to the Russian shadow fleet, as well as obtaining Trump’s allies, such as Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Urban, to stop Buy Russian oil.

While Hoffman argued that there is a lot to do before Putin actually started reassessing his war operations in Ukraine, Lithuanian Defense Minister Doflean said, “The president’s reflection is” very encouraging. “

She told Fox News Digital: “I fully agree to the statement, certainly, that Ukraine has a right and an opportunity, with our full support, to return to restore its original borders, its internationally recognized borders,” she told Fox News Digital. “why not?”

Sakalin Hoffman replied and said that Ukraine needs appropriate support to confront Russia in full, without more United States and NATO Support, Ukraine will not only make progress in the battlefield, but Russia will continue to threaten NATO – which increases the risk of a huge international war.

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A soldier from the twenty -fourth mechanic brigade is called the name of King Danilo of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and Huzzer Hetzer 2S5 inch, near the city of Chasif in the Donetsk region, Usen November. (Oleg Petrasiuk/Service Service of the King Danylo, the twenty -fourth mechanical of the Ukrainian Armed Forces/Bulletin via Reuters)

“The only obstacle is our fear – our inability to defend the rules of the world in which we live,” she said. “The last incidents series, both drones in Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and Poland, are also linked to the penetration into our air area by Russian combat aircraft, repeatedly showing that Russia is coloring outside the lines.

“It will continue [and] “They will escalate, because they feel that they cannot be overcome, because they feel that they cannot be prejudiced, and this means that they are challenging to save NATO as well,” said Sakalin.

All three security experts have agreed that the United States’s role against Putin is “critical” and the argument that the United States should weaken the rear seat to Europe weakens the necessary unified front. Russia stopped.

“The current global security structure is based on the axis of the United States,” Sakalin said, on the pretext that the regime should not be exploited, but is supported by strengthening its military capabilities in Europe. “But this also means that the voice of the United States was and still is vital to some decisions related to the security of a democratic world.”

“It is the voice of the United States that Russia hears with the highest voice,” she said.

Trump suggested on Tuesday that Ukraine should not only restore the land that Russia has acquired, but “may go further.”

Sak returned to this matter and said that Ukraine Display Through a “realistic” lens.

“We have never had an ambition to conquer Russian lands. We do not need it,” SAC said. “We only want them from our land.

“We understand that at this stage, even this goal is not possible to achieve it through military means,” continued. “It should be a mixture of diplomatic means, and it may take a long time.”

In the end, Ukraine looked at Trump’s comments that are not a sign that the United States will take immediate action, but rather to “confirm” that Trump is now on board with Ukraine’s support, and is in line with the NATO Alliance.

The graph with a map of Ukraine determines the location of the regions demanded by Russia (Donetsk, Logansk, Zaburisvia, Jacon and the Crimea, which was included in 2014), in addition to Russian regional progress, according to the data of the ISW Study Exhibition (ISW) and the AEI threat project, on August 17, 2025. (Guillermo Rivas Pacheco, Jean-Michel Cornu/AFP via Getty Images)

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“Standing with European partners in Ukraine … this alone represents a major threat to Russia,” Sak said. “They know that, and this, again, sends them a message that this is an unprecedented war for them.

“Urgent or later, when their economy is paralyzed in a mixture of sanctions in addition to the deep drones that we are doing on a daily basis, Russia will be in a position to allow it, despite its willingness to fight this war and continue to cause these aggression crimes, will not be able to do so only for economic reasons.”