“We are only a few miles away from the border with Ukraine,” said Posobiec, broadcasting from Hungary. “There’s been this huge escalation over the last 24, 48 hours. Ukraine attacking Putin, Putin responding, Ukraine responding, drone strikes,” he said. “President Trump coming out saying ‘what happened to the ceasefire? What happened to the peace deal?’”
Russia launched what Ukrainian officials have described as the largest aerial assault of the war over the weekend, killing at least 13 people and injuring dozens more, according to the BBC. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that between Sunday night and Monday morning alone, Russian forces fired 355 drones at targets across the country.
Trump responded to the attacks, posting on his Truth Social: “He has gone absolutely crazy,” referring to Putin. “Needlessly killing a lot of people.” He added: “Something has happened to him.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed Trump’s remarks, calling them a result of “emotional overload of everyone involved.”
Despite the violence, Russia and Ukraine carried out back-to-back prisoner swaps on Friday and Saturday, releasing nearly 700 combatants and civilians in total. Both governments described the exchanges as significant, even as broader ceasefire negotiations remain at an impasse. Another release is expected to follow.
Posobiec claimed that Zelensky “doesn’t want to leave office. He believes if he leaves office, he’s going to become vulnerable."
Jim Ferguson, a political analyst appearing on the same program, supported that claim, saying, “There are a huge number of people in the European elites that don’t want a peace deal… President Trump has done a remarkable job since he’s got into office, but the Ukraine one is still eluding everybody… He believes if he leaves office he will be vulnerable."
Ferguson also referenced the massive foreign aid that has flowed into Ukraine. “There’s a huge amount of money that comes from the US taxpayer, European taxpayer, that is unaccounted for. There’s about 100 billion, he says himself, he doesn’t know where it went,” he said.
Zelensky responded to the Russian attacks by calling them a deliberate political act. “There is no military sense to this,” he said. “It’s an obvious political choice... by Putin, a choice by Russia... to continue the war and destroy lives.”
