Vance warns Ukrainians arent winning the war while Trump says he could join Kyivs side

President Trump revealed that he’s open to favoring Ukraine in its war with Russia despite his qualms with President Volodymyr Zelensky, while Vice President JD Vance bluntly assessed Monday that Kyiv can’t win the fight on its current trajectory.Trump, 78, was asked during a wide-ranging interview with the Atlantic magazine whether there was anything Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin “could do that would cause you to say, “You know what? I’m on Zelensky’s side now.'”“Not necessarily on Zelensky’s side, but on Ukraine’s side, yes,” Trump replied, according to a transcript of the sitdown.“But not necessarily on Zelensky’s side.

I’ve had a hard time with Zelensky.You saw that over here [Feb.

28] when he was sitting right in that chair, when he just couldn’t get it.“The president was also coy when asked whether he would ever show “full-blown support for Ukraine” by sending additional weapons packages.“Doesn’t have to be weapons.There are many forms of weapons,” Trump replied.

“It can be weapons with sanctions.It can be weapons with banking.

It can be many other weapons.”Trump met with Zelensky for 15 minutes in St.Peter’s Basilica ahead of the funeral of Pope Francis, marking the leaders’ first face-to-face since the infamous Oval Office meeting that ended in a full-blown argument involving Vance.Following that meeting, Trump lashed out at Putin and suggested that he would punish Moscow.“There was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns, over the last few days,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Saturday.“It makes me think that maybe he doesn’t want to stop the war, he’s just tapping me along, and has to be dealt with differently, through ‘Banking’ or ‘Secondary Sanctions?’ Too many people are dying!!!”Meanwhile, on Monday, Vance, 40, delivered a hearty defense of Trump’s efforts to broker a peace agreement in the 38-month-old war.“Have the Russians and Ukrai...