The claim is false: the president came back from his trip and worked in the capital before leaving on his next visit, which had been planned in advance.
On 10-11 November, Russia and Ukraine held US-mediated peace talks in Abu Dhabi. Before the meeting, the Kremlin had stated that it is genuinely ready for talks, yet its FIMI machine had been working overtime ahead of the negotiations, seeking to shape the talks before they even begun.
Russian President Vladimir Putin declared last week that Ukrainians have no right to the occupied regions of their own country. “I think it is not their territory, but the historical territory of Russia,” he stated.
The summer of 2025 will go down in history as the moment when the foundations of Western security architecture—concepts such as “democracy,” “freedom,” and “border integrity”—were replaced in American public debate by one short word: “Deal.
