The Kremlin on Sunday cheered the shift in U.S. international coverage underneath President Donald Trump, saying the American view now “largely coincides” with Russia’s tackle geopolitics.
Trump has upended U.S. coverage on Ukraine in current weeks and sought a extra conciliatory method to Russian President Vladimir Putin, echoing Moscow’s speaking factors and lately accusing Ukrainian chief Volodymyr Zelenskyy of obstructing efforts to resolve the battle began by Putin’s unprovoked invasion. In distinction, former U.S. President Joe Biden led efforts to help Kyiv in opposition to the Russian forces attacking Ukraine.
“The brand new [U.S.] administration is quickly altering all international coverage configurations. This largely coincides with our imaginative and prescient,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov mentioned on Sunday in a video printed on Telegram.
His feedback come as European leaders are attempting to fix a rising rift between Kyiv and Washington after a gathering between Trump and Zelenskyy within the White Home spiraled right into a tense row on Friday.
Peskov additionally hailed the U.S. determination to again a United Nations draft decision that kept away from calling Russia the aggressor within the Ukraine warfare, calling it one thing that beforehand had been “unattainable to think about.”
