"After failing to secure a ceasefire from Putin at the red-carpet summit in Alaska earlier this month, Trump instead targeted Zelensky, claiming the Ukrainian leader "can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to, or he can continue to fight."

Citing Trump's soft posture on Russia, Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said Wednesday,

"The supreme leader of the world's greatest superpower is, objectively, a Soviet, or Russian, asset. He functions as an asset," according to CNN Portugal."