Trump Says Ukraine Can Win Back All Territory As UN Warns Of Russian Torture (Worthy News In-Depth)
by Stefan J. Bos, Worthy News Europe Bureau Chief
NEW YORK/KYIV/BUDAPEST (Worthy News) – Frustrated about Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine, U.S. President Donald J. Trump warned Moscow on Tuesday that Ukraine would be able to “fight and win back” all the land it lost since the Russian invasion began in 2022.
“Why not? Russia has been fighting aimlessly for three and a half years a War that should have taken a Real Military Power less than a week to win,” Trump added on his Truth Social media platform.
He suggested those territories could include Crimea, the peninsula Russia occupied in 2014, before the full-scale invasion began some eight years later.
“Ukraine would be able to take back their Country in its original form and, who knows, maybe even go further than that!” he wrote in an apparent endorsement of Ukraine’s potential, a shift from his earlier stance.
[Russian President Vladimir] “Putin and Russia are in BIG Economic trouble, and this is the time for Ukraine to act,” Trump stressed. He added that the United States will continue to supply the NATO military alliance with weapons for purchase.
TRUMP, ZELENSKYY MEET
Earlier, in a bilateral meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Trump said that the “Russian economy is terrible right now” and Ukraine has done a “pretty amazing” job at staving off the Kremlin’s forces.
The two met in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meeting, which is overshadowed by wars and questions over the future of the U.N. on the 80th anniversary of its founding.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy was also speaking at a related U.N. Security Council meeting, which is responsible for peace and security. “One of the prominent members of this council is doing everything to prolong the largest war in Europe since World War II,” Zelenskyy complained. “Russia does this with its veto power.”
“China is also represented here, a powerful nation on which Russia relies completely,” he added. “Without China, Putin’s Russia is nothing.”
Zelenskyy also nodded to his recent meeting with Trump. “We expect America’s actions to push Moscow toward peace,” he said.
DEADLY CLASHES CONTINUE
Yet there was little sign of that happening soon on the battlefields of Europe’s bloodiest conflict since World War II, which is believed to have killed and injured more than a million people.
On Tuesday, Ukraine endured again renewed Russian drone and missile barrages that have killed civilians and damaged infrastructure in recent days in several areas, officials said.
Fighting raged especially in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, where Moscow seeks to break through Kyiv’s defenses, several sources said.
However, Ukraine claimed that in response to Russia’s actions, special units destroyed two Soviet-era Be-12 “Chaika” amphibious aircraft and a Mi-8 transport helicopter in Crimea around September 22.
Those battlefield claims have not been independently verified, underscoring the challenges of confirming losses amid restricted access and propaganda from both sides.
U.N. REPORT ON TORTURE
Amid the clashes, a United Nations human rights report expressed concern about civilians captured by Russia, saying they suffered systematic torture in more than 100 Russian-run detention centers, with at least 36 deaths documented.
U.N. investigators focused on prison facilities across Russia and occupied Ukraine based on detailed interviews with 215 former detainees captured since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
The report lists abuses including mock executions, beatings, electric shocks, stress positions, and some deaths. Russia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry did not immediately comment on the 22-page report.
Yet as more details of the human toll of war emerged, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy said he believes his relationship with Trump has improved since their public fallout at the White House earlier this year. He suggested Trump could take important steps to end the war in Ukraine, without conceding Ukrainian territories.
“I think we have a better relation than before,” Zelenskyy said. He had faced Trump in a famously heated Oval Office meeting in February. “I think the fact that Putin was lying to President Trump so many times also made a difference between us,” he told broadcaster Fox News.
ZELENSKYY SEES TRUMP ROLE
“I think that President Trump can change the attitude of [China’s President] Xi Jinping to this war,” Zelenskyy added. He said he also believed Trump could manage India’s support for Ukraine.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio also touted Trump’s ongoing role in negotiations to end the war in Ukraine while warning that the president was open to levying “additional economic costs” on Russia and selling additional defensive weaponry and “potentially offensive weaponry” to Ukraine.
“The president is a very patient man,” Rubio said, “but his patience is not infinite.”
“The United States remains as committed as it has ever been to a peaceful resolution to this dangerous conflict, but there will come a moment where we will have to conclude that perhaps there is no interest in a peaceful resolution,” he explained.
However, Russia’s Deputy Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy accused Ukrainians of fighting for the “advancement of Western geopolitical interests.”
He also criticized “unsubstantiated allegations” that some 20 Russian drones entered Poland and three Russian MiG-31 violated Estonia’s airspace last week, which prompted the NATO military alliance to target drones and ensure the jets would leave its airspace.
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