United States President Donald Trump says he believes Ukraine, with the support of the European Union and NATO, could win back all of the territory Russia has captured since its invasion more than three years ago, in a dramatic shift in his policy on Ukraine.“With time, patience, and the financial support of Europe and, in particular, NATO, the original Borders from where this War started, is very much an option,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform after his meeting on Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThey met on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. He had previously said both Kyiv and Moscow would have to cede land to end the war. Zelenskyy and his European allies have been opposed to Trump’s suggestion of territorial compromise to achieve peace.In the post, Trump criticised Russia’s prosecution of the conflict, saying it had been fighting “aimlessly” in a war that a “real military power” would have won in “less than a week”.Trump also dismissed Russia as a “paper tiger”, saying President Vladimir “Putin and Russia are in BIG Economic trouble, and this is the time for Ukraine to act.”Russia has captured nearly 20 percent of Ukraine since it invaded in February 2022. Moscow annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and considers it to be outside the scope of its invasion.The US president has previously shown lukewarm s …
