The statement , made following a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in New York, runs counter to Trump’s previously stated belief that the war between Russia and Ukraine would only end with Ukraine ceding some territory. “I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. Trump’s statement is “positive,” said John Herbst, a former U.S. ambassador to Kyiv and the senior director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center. Herbst, however, said there were mixed signals from the Trump administration about just how much it was willing to confront Russia. Trump responded to the violations of Polish airspace, for example, by saying that the drones could have been there by “mistake,” Herbst noted.