The rhetorical shift raised questions around the world over whether Trump has decisively changed posture on the Ukraine war, after months of wooing Russian leader Vladimir Putin and failing to hit Moscow with much-hyped massive sanctions.
Moscow brushed off Trump’s broadside, taking exception to the U.S. president’s remark that “Putin and Russia are in BIG Economic trouble, and this is the time for Ukraine to act.”
Peskov said that despite “certain points of tensions” due to Western sanctions following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia “maintains resilience and macroeconomic stability.”