Ex-Trump ally on his expected Ukrainian policy: ‘Do f— off!’

Former Donald Trump friend Piers Morgan appears angered by a report Moscow won’t hand over significant territory in its war with Ukraine as Vladimir Putin may work with the Trump administration on a peace deal.
Reuters reports “Putin is open to discussing a Ukraine ceasefire deal with Donald Trump but rules out making any major territorial concessions and insists Kyiv abandon ambitions to join NATO,” citing five sources with knowledge.
“So, Russia can illegally invade a sovereign democratic European country, murder 1000s of Ukrainian civilians, then rope in North Korean soldiers to help them wage war, and the West’s correct response should be to.. *checks notes* … give Putin what he’s stolen? Do f*ck off,” Morgan posted to X.
The war, which reached its 1,000-day milestone on Tuesday, has largely been going Russia’s way in recent months. Russia’s bigger army is slowly pushing Ukraine’s outnumbered army backward in the eastern Donetsk region, while Ukrainian civilians have repeatedly been clobbered by Russian drones and missiles often fired from inside Russia.
The war has taken on a growing international dimension with the arrival of North Korean troops to help Russia on the battlefield — a development that U.S. officials said prompted Joe Biden’s policy shift on allowing Ukraine to fire longer-range U.S. missiles into Russia and that angered the Kremlin.
After the Biden administration allowed Ukraine to attack Russia with longer-range U.S. missiles, Russian President Vladimir Putin lowered the threshold for using his nuclear arsenal, with the new doctrine announced Tuesday permitting a potential nuclear response by Moscow even to a conventional attack on Russia by any nation that is supported by a nuclear power.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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