Russia says no choice but war after Trump U-turn on Ukraine

 The Kremlin has announced it has “no alternative” but to continue waging war, as it pushed back on United States President Donald Trump’s sudden sea chnage towards Ukraine that saw him brand Russia a “paper tiger”.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov hit back at Trump’s claim that Ukraine could effectively win the war, declaring Wednesday that Russia would be continuing its offensive on Ukraine “to ensure our interests and achieve the goals”.

The Kremlin has announced it has “no alternative” but to continue waging war, as it pushed back on United States President Donald Trump’s sudden sea chnage towards Ukraine that saw him brand Russia a “paper tiger”.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov hit back at Trump’s claim that Ukraine could effectively win the war, declaring Wednesday that Russia would be continuing its offensive on Ukraine “to ensure our interests and achieve the goals”.

“We are doing this for both the present and the future of our country. For many generations to come. Therefore, we have no alternative,” he said in a radio interview with Russia’s RBC radio station.

Tuesday had seen Trump throw his weight behind Ukraine after a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, posting on social media that the country was “in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form”.

Signalling his rapprochement with Russia was over, the US president said: “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”.

Russia’s war was making it look like a “paper tiger” with a failing economy, he said.

On Wednesday, Peskov pushed back against Trump’s “paper tiger” remark, insisting Russia was more of a “bear”. Though he conceded the economy, which is slowing after three years of rapid growth and with stubborn inflation, was facing some headwinds.