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Trump suggests Ukraine 'play offensive' as Russia downplays prospect of Putin-Zelenskyy summit
Trump said it's "hard" to "win a war without attacking an invaders country."

ByMichelle Stoddart and Patrick Reevell
August 21, 2025, 7:02 PM
Amid Russian resistance to his peacemaking efforts, President Donald Trump on Thursday appeared to suggest Ukraine go on the offensive militarily.
In a post to his social media platform, Trump criticized former President Joe Biden's approach to the conflict, claiming Biden "would not let Ukraine FIGHT BACK, only DEFEND."
"It is very hard, if not impossible, to win a war without attacking an invaders country. It’s like a great team in sports that has a fantastic defense, but is not allowed to play offensive. There is no chance of winning!" Trump wrote.
Biden last year reversed a long-standing policy and authorized Ukraine to use American-supplied ATACM long-range missiles to strike inside of Russia, but before that the administration had blocked strikes inside of Russia, only allowing the Ukrainian military to use shorter-range missiles to strike in Ukrainian territory seized by Russia.
Trump long opposed allowing Ukraine to strike Russia, heavily criticizing Biden for authorizing it and as President he has appeared to discourage it as escalatory.
But Trump has recently taken an interest in the possibility of Ukrainian strikes deep into Russia. has taken interest in the possibility of Ukrainian strikes deep into Russia. The White House confirmed July reports that Trump discussed with Zelenskyy whether Ukraine would be able to strike St. Petersburg and Moscow with U.S.-supplied weapons. But the White House insisted that Trump was "asking a question, not encouraging further killing."
It is unclear whether Trump is hinting at any policy change on U.S. support for Ukraine with his post on Thursday, though he did write at the end: "Interesting times ahead!!!"
Trump's post came as Russia's foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, downplays the prospect of a summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the coming weeks. The White House said this week Putin "promised" to sit-down with Zelenskyy, but Russia has not confirmed.
In remarks on Thursday, Lavrov said a meeting between the two leaders could only take place once all major components of a peace agreement are worked out.
“Our president has repeatedly said that he is ready to meet, including with Mr. Zelenskyy, on the understanding that all issues requiring consideration at the highest level will be thoroughly worked out and experts and ministers will prepare appropriate recommendations," Lavrov said.
Such conditions appeared to make a meeting in the near future very unlikely.Like Putin, Lavrov sought to cast Zelenskyy as an illegitimate leader, saying when "it comes to signing future agreements, the question of the legitimacy of the person signing these agreements on the Ukrainian side will be resolved." Putin has taken to not mentioning Zelenskyy by name, instead giving his government the moniker "Kyiv regime."
Lavrov also continued to insist Russia have a role in any security guarantees for Ukraine post-war. He rejected the European-led discussions as "futile."
While Trump projected optimism on Monday on peace talks, he's now saying he'll know whether a deal can be made in "two weeks."
"Well, I'll let you know in about, I would say within two weeks, we're going to know one way or the other. After that, we'll have to maybe take a different tack, but we'll see, but we'll know pretty soon," Trump said during an interview with radio host Todd Starnes.
Meanwhile, Zelenskyy is accusing Russia of trying to "wriggle out" of a meeting.
"Right now, the signals coming from Russia are, to be honest, simply indecent. They are trying to wriggle out of the need to hold a meeting. They do not want to end this war. They continue massive attacks against Ukraine and extremely intense assaults on the front line. And on top of that, they are launching missiles at an American enterprise -- just like they do at many of our other completely civilian targets."
Zelenskyy said he will continue diplomatic discussions with partners and encouraged greater pressure on Russia to end the war, which began when Putin's forces invaded Ukraine in Feb. 2022.
"Each day now adds more shape to the future security architecture for Ukraine: weapons, funding, cooperation with our partners, forces on land, in the air, and at sea," Zelenskyy said on Thursday.
ABC News' William Gretsky and Anna Sergeeva contributed to this report.

Two weeks. Always two weeks.

Has someone figured out that’s how long they need our lizard brains to forget whatever today’s lie is?
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I read the new long-distance missile "Flamingo" is being produced at a rate of 1 per day. Next month the goal is 7 per day, on the way to 100 per day. 

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I really cant wait for Ukr to launch a full scale attack at every new airbase within range of the missiles  50 missiles per base kinda shit and watch them wipe out most of the entire Russian air force East of the Urals

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1 hour ago, Chopper said:

I read the new long-distance missile "Flamingo" is being produced at a rate of 1 per day. Next month the goal is 7 per day, on the way to 100 per day. 

If on the sad day the US and/or Europe turns its back on Ukraine, I hope Ukraine has enough missiles in storage so they can fire 1000 Flamingo missiles at once at every commercial and military airport tower and runway, every electricity producing power plant (whether oil, coal, nat gas, nuke, or Hydro), every large dam and every and main bridge over every river and gorge in the entire fucking country of Russia.

And then fire 1000 the next day onto the moldering ruins of what was hit the first day (and any remaining air defense).   Day three should be massive drone attacks in St. Petersburg and Moscow - hitting smaller electrical substations and any banks and government offices not protected. 

If it comes down to an abandoned Ukraine’s very survival, fuck the impact on Russian civilians and the resulting humanitarian crisis. I get why Ukraine has to play by different rules when they are dependent upon others.   That philosophical restriction where Russia attacks civilian targets like apartments and hospitals and energy infrastructure and dams with impunity - and Ukraine can’t respond in kind - should no longer be in play if they are left to their own devices against an immoral Russia.   

i’d pull out my ‘when Trump dies’ bottle of champagne and celebrate. 

 

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