Recently Google News on-line picked up the following:
Kyiv can win all of Ukraine back from Russia, Trump says
BBC - Ruth Comerford and Anthony Zurcher
24 Sept. 2025
US President Donald Trump has said Kyiv can "win all of
Ukraine back in its original form", marking a major shift in his position
on the war with Russia.
In a post on his Truth Social platform, he said Ukraine could get back "the original borders from where this war started" with the support of Europe and Nato, due to pressures on Russia's economy.
His comments came after talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, held after Trump had addressed the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.
Trump has repeatedly expressed his desire to end the war, but has previously warned that process would likely involve Ukraine giving up some territory, an outcome Zelensky has consistently rejected.
In his post, Trump added Ukraine could "maybe even go further than that", but did not specify what he was referring to.
He also made no reference to Crimea, which was invaded and annexed by Russia in 2014. Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Trump said his position had changed "after getting to know and fully understand the Ukraine/Russia military and economic situation".
"Putin and Russia are in BIG Economic trouble, and this is the time for Ukraine to act," he added, labelling Russia as a "paper tiger".
Zelensky hailed the "big shift" in Trump's position, and speaking to reporters in the UN building, said he understood the US was willing to give Ukraine security guarantees "after the war is finished".
Pressed on what this would look like, he added: "I don't want to lie, we don't have specific details," but broached the possibility of more weapons, air defenses and drones.
Earlier on Tuesday, following his speech to the UN, Trump also said Nato nations should shoot down Russian planes breaching their airspace, following a series of recent incursions by Russian fighter jets and drones.
Last week, Estonia and Poland requested a consultation with other Nato members after Russia violated its airspace in separate incidents. Romania, another Nato member, also said Russian drones breached its airspace.
Russia denied violating Estonia's airspace, while it insisted the Polish incursion was not deliberate and did not comment on the Romania incident.
Asked if the US would support its Nato allies if they shot down Russian aircraft, Trump said it "depends on the circumstance" and praised the military alliance for increasing defence spending.
In his speech hours earlier, Trump criticised some Nato members for not ceasing the purchase of Russian energy, saying they were "funding a war against themselves".
Tuesday's Truth Social post represents an about-face after Trump spent most of the year insisting that Ukraine's situation was dire.
In February, Trump told Zelensky during their fiery Oval Office exchange that he did "not have the cards right now" to prevail against a larger, more populous nation in a war of attrition.
Before talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska in August, Trump said he would try to get some territory back for Ukraine but warned there would be "some swapping, changes in land".
There were reports he was planning to press Zelensky to surrender the entirety of the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in return for Russia freezing the rest of the front line - a proposal put forward by Putin in Alaska.
Trump has also repeatedly threatened to impose tougher measures on Russia, but has so far failed to take any action when the Kremlin ignored his deadlines and threats of sanctions.
Unpredictability has long been one of the US president's foreign policy trademarks, and perhaps this latest move is an attempt to shake up peace negotiations that have been stagnant for more than a month after Trump hosted Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Alaska.
It is not the seemingly near open-ended commitment to the war effort that the Biden administration provided, but it is more than Trump seemed interested in offering at times this year.
Translation:
特朗普稱基輔可以從俄羅斯手中奪回整個烏克蘭
美國總統特朗普表示，基輔可以 “奪回整個原有的烏克蘭” ，這標誌著他在對俄戰爭立場上的重大轉變。
他在自己的「真相社交」平台上發文稱，由於俄羅斯經濟面臨壓力，烏克蘭可以在歐洲和北約的支持下，奪回「戰爭爆發時的原有邊界」。
特朗普是在周二於紐約聯合國大會發表講話後與烏克蘭總統澤連斯基舉行會談後發表上述言論的。
特朗普曾多次表達結束戰爭的願望，但此前曾警告稱，這一進程可能涉及烏克蘭放棄部分領土，而澤連斯基一直拒絕接受這一結果。
特朗普在貼文中補充說，烏克蘭 “甚至可能走得更遠” ，但沒有具體說明他指的是什麼。
他也沒有提及克里米亞。克里米亞於2014年被俄羅斯入侵併吞。俄羅斯於2022年對烏克蘭發動了全面入侵。
特朗普表示，他的立場「在得悉並充分理解烏克蘭/俄羅斯的軍事上和經濟狀上況後」發生了改變。
他補充說：「普京和俄羅斯正面臨巨大的經濟困境，現在是烏克蘭採取行動的時候了」。他也將俄羅斯稱為「紙老虎」。
澤連斯基對特朗普立場的「重大轉變」表示歡迎，並在聯合國大樓對記者表示，他理解美國願意在「戰爭結束後」向烏克蘭提供安全保障。
當被問及具體情況時，他補充說：「我不想撒謊，我們沒有具體細節」。但他提到了部署更多武器、防空系統和無人機的可能性。
週二早些時候，特朗普在聯合國發表演說後還表示，北約國家應該擊落侵犯其領空的俄羅斯飛機，此前俄羅斯戰鬥機和無人機近期多次入侵。
上週，在俄羅斯分別侵犯其領空後，愛沙尼亞和波蘭請求與其他北約成員國進行磋商。另一個北約成員國羅馬尼亞也表示，俄羅斯無人機侵犯了其領空。
俄羅斯否認侵犯了愛沙尼亞領空，同時堅稱波蘭的入侵並非故意，也未對羅馬尼亞事件發表評論。
當被問及如果北約盟國擊落俄羅斯飛機，美國是否會提供支援時，特朗普表示 “視情況而定” ，並讚揚北約增加國防開支。
他表示: 「北約已經加大了力度」，他指的是各國領導人達成的一項協議，即到2035年將國防開支增加到各國經濟產出的5%。
在演講幾個小時前，特朗普批評一些北約成員國沒有停止購買俄羅斯能源，稱他們「是在資助一場針對自己的戰爭」。
週二在「真相社交」網站上發佈的推文代表了特朗普態度的徹底轉變，此前一年大部分時間特朗普都在堅稱烏克蘭局勢嚴峻。
今年2月，特朗普在橢圓形辦公室與澤連斯基激烈交流時表示，澤連斯基手中「現在沒有牌」在一場消耗戰中去戰勝一個幅員遼闊、人口眾多的國家。
8月，特朗普在與俄羅斯總統普京在阿拉斯加會談之前表示他將努力為烏克蘭奪回部分領土，但警告稱，將會進行「一些土地交換」。
據報道，他計劃向澤連斯基施壓，要求其交出烏克蘭東部頓涅茨克和盧甘斯克地區的全部領土，以換取俄羅斯凍結剩餘前線 - 這是普京在阿拉斯加提出的建議。
特朗普也曾多次威脅要對俄羅斯採取更嚴厲的措施，但在克里姆林宮無視他的最後期限和製裁威脅後，特朗普迄今未能採取任何行動。
長期以來, 不可預測性一直是美國總統外交政策的標誌之一，或許這項最新舉動是為了打破停滯的和平談判。自特朗普在阿拉斯加會見俄羅斯總統普京後，談判停滯了一個多月。
特朗普這篇貼文最引人注目的部分可能是它的結尾 - 他保證美國將繼續向北約出售武器，然後轉交給烏克蘭。
這雖然不像拜登政府那樣對戰爭努力做出看似無限的承諾，但這已比特朗普今年的間中作出的承諾來得多。
So, Donald Trump has said that Kyiv
can "win all of Ukraine back in its original form", indicating a
major shift in his position on the war with Russia. What is important is that he
will continue to sell arms to NATO to pass them along to Ukraine. Trump’s
foreign policy is often unpredictable, and perhaps this latest move is an
attempt to shake up peace negotiations that have been stagnant after his
meeting with Putin in Alaska. Let’s wait
and see what will happen next.
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