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UNITED NATIONS (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump<\/a> said Tuesday that he believed Ukraine could win back all territory lost to Russia, a dramatic shift from the U.S. leader\u2019s repeated calls for Kyiv to make concessions<\/a> to end the war.<\/p>\n

Trump posted on social media soon after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly<\/a> gathering of world leaders.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form,\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cWith 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

The strengthened support from Trump, if it sticks, is a huge win for Zelenskyy, who has urged the American president to keep up the pressure<\/a> on Russian President Vladimir Putin to end his war. It was a departure from Trump\u2019s previous suggestions<\/a> that Ukraine would never be able to reclaim all the territory that Russia has occupied since seizing the Crimean Peninsula in 2014. <\/p>\n

That had disheartened Zelenskyy, Europeans and Ukrainians and called into question the U.S. commitment to U.N. principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity. But now, Trump\u2019s view of the battlefield coincides more with Ukraine\u2019s, Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump is a game changer by himself,\u201d Zelenskyy told reporters after their meeting.<\/p>\n

Trump needles Russia about war in Ukraine<\/p>\n

Trump, going back to his 2024 campaign, insisted he would quickly end the war<\/a>, but his peace efforts appear to have stalled following a diplomatic blitz last month, when he held a summit with Putin<\/a> and a White House meeting with Zelenskyy<\/a> and European allies. <\/p>\n

Trump has acknowledged, including in his U.N. speech to world leaders, that he thought a resolution to this conflict would be \u201cthe easiest\u201d because he has had a good relationship with Putin<\/a>. Trump said he is open to imposing more sanctions on Russia<\/a> and urged Europe to join in.<\/p>\n

\u201cRussia has been fighting aimlessly for three and a half years a War that should have taken a Real Military Power less than a week to win,\u201d Trump wrote on social media. \u201cThis is not distinguishing Russia. In fact, it is very much making them look like \u2018a paper tiger.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

In his speech to the General Assembly, Trump said the war in Ukraine<\/a> was making Russia \u201clook bad\u201d because it was \u201csupposed to be a quick little skirmish.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt shows you what leadership is, what bad leadership can do to a country,\u201d he said. \u201cThe only question now is how many lives will be needlessly lost on both sides.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before meeting with Zelenskyy, Trump said the \u201cbiggest progress\u201d toward ending the conflict \u201cis that the Russian economy is terrible right now.\u201d Zelenskyy said he agreed with Trump\u2019s call for European nations to further halt imports of Russian oil and natural gas.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have great respect for the fight that Ukraine is putting up,\u201d Trump told Zelenskyy, who replied that he had \u201cgood news\u201d from the battlefield.<\/p>\n

How Trump\u2019s stance has shifted on Ukraine<\/p>\n

Before his Alaska summit<\/a> with Putin last month, Trump repeated that any resolution to the war would require \u201csome land swapping.\u201d<\/p>\n

In talks with Zelenskyy and Europeans just afterward, Trump said Putin reiterated that he wants the Donetsk and Luhansk regions<\/a> that make up the Donbas, according to European officials. Days later, Zelenskyy and prominent European leaders<\/a> came to the White House.<\/p>\n

Following those meetings, Trump announced he was arranging for direct talks<\/a> between Putin and Zelenskyy. But Putin hasn\u2019t shown any interest in meeting with Zelenskyy and Moscow has only intensified its bombardment of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

European leaders as well as American lawmakers, including some Republican allies of Trump, have urged the president to dial up stronger sanctions on Russia.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the event that Russia is not ready to make a deal to end the war, then the United States is fully prepared to impose a very strong round of powerful tariffs, which would stop the bloodshed, I believe, very quickly,\u201d Trump told the General Assembly.<\/p>\n

However, he repeated his calls for Europe to \u201cstep it up\u201d and stop buying Russian oil, the engine feeding Putin\u2019s war machine.<\/p>\n

Push for sanctions and cutting off Russian oil<\/p>\n

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said before meeting with Trump that Europe would be imposing more sanctions and tariffs on Russia and that the bloc would be further reducing its imports of Russian energy.<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy, speaking at a special U.N. Security Council session on Ukraine, also appealed for stronger U.S. pressure on Russia.<\/p>\n

\u201cMoscow fears America and always pays attention to it,\u201d said Zelenskyy, who has had strained ties with Trump<\/a> in previous sitdowns and has previously faced White House accusations that he was partly to blame for Russia\u2019s invasion<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n

Russia denigrated the Security Council meeting as just the New York stop in the world tour of a \u201cformer actor,\u201d a reference to Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no added value for the establishment of peace in Ukraine generated from today\u2019s meeting,\u201d said Dmitry Polyanskiy, Russia\u2019s deputy ambassador to the U.N. \u201cThis will merely become yet another shameful episode in the market of hypocrisy.\u201d<\/p>\n

European leaders have supported Zelenskyy\u2019s diplomatic efforts, with some alarmed by the possibility that the war could spread beyond Ukraine<\/a> as they are facing what they have called Russian provocations.<\/p>\n

\u201cI welcome the fact that the president of the United States believes in Ukraine\u2019s ability not only to hold the course\u201d but to prevail, French President Emmanuel Macron said.<\/p>\n

NATO allies will hold formal consultations<\/a> at Estonia\u2019s request on Tuesday, after the Baltic country said three Russian fighter jets entered its airspace<\/a> last week without authorization. <\/p>\n

Trump said he would back NATO countries that choose to shoot down intruding Russian planes, but said direct U.S. involvement would depend on the circumstances. <\/p>\n

New strikes in Ukraine as toll of war grows<\/p>\n

The full-scale war, which began on Feb. 24, 2022, is taking a heavy toll on Ukrainian civilians. Russia said it shot down three dozen Ukrainian drones heading toward Moscow, while Ukraine said Russian missiles, drones and bombs killed at least two civilians.<\/p>\n

The U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights also said this month that Ukrainian civilian casualties increased by 40% in the first eight months of this year compared with 2024, as Russia escalated its long-range missile and localized drone strikes.<\/p>\n

A U.N. Human Rights Office report released Tuesday described the dire situation of thousands of civilians detained by Russia in areas of Ukraine it has captured.<\/p>\n

\u201cRussian authorities have subjected Ukrainian civilian detainees in occupied territory to torture and ill-treatment, including sexual violence, in a widespread and systematic manner,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

Novikov reported from Kyiv, Ukraine. AP reporters Hanna Arhirova in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Farnoush Amiri at the United Nations contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

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