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Russia thanks Trump and celebrates ‘total victory’ over Ukraine | World | News

Russia thanks Trump and celebrates ‘total victory’ over Ukraine | World | News

Russian state media has claimed a victory over Ukraine after a Florida summer between Donald Trump and Volodimir Zelensky appears to have forced Ukraine into making concessions. The meeting to flesh out the final stage of the Russian-Ukrainian peace deal took place at Trump’s Mar-a-lago estate on Sunday and was billed as a push towards ending Russia’s nearly four-year invasion. But the pair seemed to reach a sticking point with some “thorny issues” still to be ironed out. When probed more about the specifics, President Trump claimed that some of the land Ukraine has spent nearly half a decade defending is still “up for grabs”, claiming that it has “already been taken.” Trump went on: “I think the land you’re talking about, some of that land has been taken. “Some of that land is maybe up for grabs, but it may be taken over the next period of a number of months, and you’re better off making a deal.” America’s Russian sympathy seems to be something that Moscow has taken as a victory, with a …