Russia Revels in Zelenskiy’s Oval Office Dressing Down
- The Kremlin is happy, but doesn’t yet believe in easy victory
- Trump’s desire for ‘immediate ceasefire’ might be a problem
Vladimir Putin holds his annual end-of-year press conference in Moscow on December 19, 2024.
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President Donald Trump is making all of Vladimir Putin’s dreams come true in Ukraine, but even at the Kremlin officials find the head-spinning turn of events hard to believe.
Friday’s extraordinary Oval Office humiliation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy by the US leader and his vice president, JD Vance, exceeded anything Russia could have expected.