Trump-Zelensky LIVE: Russia points ‘nuke strike’ risk earlier than Mar-a-Lago meet
Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky are set to hold a crunch meeting over Russia’s nearly four-year war in Ukraine.
The US president and his Ukrainian counterpart are expected to meet at Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida at 1pm ET (6pm GMT).
The talks come after a Russian propagandist claimed most Russians would support nuclear strikes against Ukraine and parts of Europe. Sergey Mikheyev made the inflammatory comments on the primetime programme The Evening With Vladimir Solovyov, on Putin’s state TV.
What other comments were made?
Sergey Mikheyev said a part of “our Russian civilization became anti‑Russia” in reference to Ukraine.
He continued: “Therefore, when they [the West] say, ‘Ukraine should never again, so to speak, become the object of Putin’s aggression,’ they need to understand a simple thing: as long as Ukraine remains anti‑Russia, it will be a military target for Russia – under Putin, after Putin, under whoever comes after Putin, and so on, and so on.”
Mikheyev later said: “The split is gradually deepening, and it is, of course, beneficial for us that the European Union should not exist.
“I’ll repeat once again: the Babylonian tower of the European Union must be destroyed. It is beneficial for us to build bilateral relations with individual European countries. That is more reliable, that is better.”
He said at the end; “The tasks before us include strengthening our own army, new types of weapons, and an economy oriented toward domestic production and self‑sufficiency.”
‘Most Russians in favour of nuking Europe and Ukraine,’ says propagandist
Speaking on The Evening With Vladimir Solovyov, Sergey Mikheyev said in Russian: “They [the West] have this myth: that Putin supposedly went mad, and that’s why he’s doing all this. Listen, I’ve said many times in this studio: if you held a referendum on our military policy and asked the Russian population what should have been done, Europe and Ukraine would have long since been smoking with radioactive ash.
“If, hypothetically, you asked the majority of the population – indeed, the entire population of Russia – what should be done, the answer would be: to burn everything to hell so that they never open their mouths again.”
