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The Kremlin connected Wednesday (September 24, 2025) rejected the cardinal arguments for United States President Donald Trump's rhetorical U-turn connected the warfare successful Ukraine, arsenic nationalists and governmental insiders reacted with a substance of defiance and mockery. Trump connected Tuesday said helium believed Ukraine could retake each its onshore controlled by Russia and that Kyiv should enactment present with Moscow facing "big" economical problems, successful a abrupt and striking rhetorical displacement successful Ukraine's favour.
The Kremlin countered that the Russian system was stable, contempt problems successful immoderate sectors caused by sanctions, and that Russian forces' dilatory beforehand successful Ukraine was portion of a deliberate strategy alternatively than a motion of weakness.
Russia rejects Trump’s ‘paper tiger’ comment
“Russia is not a tiger but is much associated with a bear,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said successful an interrogation with the RBC vigor station, aft Trump called Russia a “paper tiger.”
"Paper bears don't exist." Though angered by what they saw arsenic Trump's insulting rhetoric, Russian nationalists and governmental insiders interpreted his flip-flop arsenic a motion that helium was washing his hands of the warfare successful Ukraine aft his unsuccessful and unrealistic attempts to broker a speedy bid deal.
They noted that helium had not promised immoderate much U.S. assistance to Kyiv, but alternatively placed the onus squarely connected Ukraine itself and the European Union.
"Yes, Trump abruptly told the satellite astir his emotion for Ukraine. He hoped it would 'regain the territories it had successful 1991 and, who knows, possibly adjacent spell further," said Konstantin Malofeyev, an ultra-nationalist tycoon and governmental influencer.
"But the main point... is that the U.S. is washing its hands of the matter. The European Union volition wage for everything. To enactment it adjacent much simply: Trump has sent Ukraine to combat against Russia alongside Europe portion buying weapons from the U.S."
Foreign Minister to acceptable retired Russia’s stance
Mr. Peskov, the Kremlin spokesperson, acknowledged the displacement successful Trump's rhetoric successful favour of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, whom Trump met connected Tuesday (September 23), but said that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov would clasp talks with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio aboriginal connected Wednesday (September 24) and acceptable retired Russia's stance.
Mr. Peskov said determination were nary problems with macro-economic stableness and rejected Trump's disapproval of the Russian subject aft the U.S. President said Moscow had been warring "aimlessly" successful Ukraine.
Russia's incremental advances successful Ukraine were the effect of what helium called a good thought-out strategy.
"We are going guardant precise cautiously to minimise losses and truthful arsenic not to destruct our violative potential," said Mr. Peskov.
Dmitry Rogozin, a legislator who has fought successful Ukraine, said Trump was trying to disturbance up trouble.
"His rhetoric is truthful undignified that it is hard to ideate idiosyncratic similar him inactive successful bureau arsenic president of a large power," Mr. Rogozin wrote connected Telegram.
Margarita Simonyan, 1 of Russia's apical authorities media executives, likened Mr. Trump to a tarot paper scholar promising his client—Ukraine— the intolerable erstwhile helium spoke of Kyiv being capable to retake territory.
"Trump debuts arsenic the tarot paper scholar telling the thrice-divorced woman that she is going to conscionable that billionaire prince aft all, arsenic agelong arsenic she buys the magic crystals," Ms. Simonyan wrote connected X.
