It was notably not Trump’s hour-long speech that delivered yesterday’s most significant news line, but a subsequent social media post that marked a major U-turn in his Ukraine policy.
Where the US president had previously pressed Kyiv to surrender, he now appears to be encouraging it to keep fighting.
Posting on Truth Social after talks with Zelenskyy in New York, Trump said that “Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form”.
Moscow’s “aimless” fighting showed that it was very much “‘a paper tiger'”, the president added.
Our US correspondent Mark Stone has summarised the full story of yesterday’s events here…
Zelenskyy later admitted that he had been surprised by the comments, telling Stone in a brief interview that Trump’s comments marked a “big shift”.
Watch Zelenskyy’s comments to Stone…