Russia is Cautiously Optimistic Following the Zelensky-Trump Meeting

ISW - 03/03

By Kateryna Stepanenko

March 3, 2025

The Kremlin is falsely portraying US peace efforts in Ukraine as aligned with Russia’s objective of destroying Ukraine’s sovereignty.
Russian state media and officials are misrepresenting US policy to suggest a shift toward supporting Russian goals, despite no official change from the Trump Administration.
Some Russian officials express optimism that the US will soon cut military aid to Ukraine, believing it would enable Russia’s victory.
Russian officials falsely claim that peace in Ukraine requires a Russian victory, misrepresenting US policy to their domestic audience.
The Kremlin is using the Zelensky-Trump meeting to rally domestic support for the war, falsely framing it as a defense of Russian sovereignty.
Russian officials are promoting baseless claims that the US will remove Zelensky from office and are suggesting a shift in US policy that undermines European security.

The Kremlin is falsely framing the US objectives of achieving peace in Ukraine as being aligned with Russia's stated objectives of destroying Ukraine as a sovereign state in the aftermath of the February 28 White House meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Donald Trump. Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov responded to the Zelensky-Trump meeting on March 3 by falsely framing Moscow and Washington, DC, as being aligned on settling Russia's war in Ukraine, while deliberately framing Ukraine's ongoing defensive operations against Russian aggression and increasing European support for Ukraine as the emergence of the "pro-war party."[1] Peskov said that Russia will continue its war in Ukraine in the meantime to "achieve all Russian goals," which the Kremlin ...
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