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Mr Zelensky, Donald Trump Jr tweeted on Wednesday, was "basically an ungrateful international welfare queen" - summing up what is becoming an increasingly prevalent view among the former president's "America first" supporters.

Zelensky makes his pitch - will US sceptics buy it?

Overall, of course, rank-and-file Republicans support aiding Ukraine against Russia. But the Trumpian GOP is now controlled by its fringe, the same activists and primary voters who wear the I’d rather be a Russian than a Democrat T-shirts. Although much of the aid for Ukraine (including the Patriot system) is already in the pipeline, GOP grandstanding for the base could create more danger for Ukraine by encouraging Putin to believe that America’s commitment to freedom will wane over time. Indeed, the Russian president’s decision to invade Ukraine, as The New York Times reported this weekend, was predicated in part on his belief in the West’s weakness and short attention span.

Zelensky Knows the Clock Is Ticking

A Russian court has ordered the seizure of a billion dollar luxury resort belonging to a tycoon who criticised Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.
The court order to seize the Imeretinskiy hotel and marina in Sochi, owned by Oleg Deripaska, an aluminium magnate, came after he was urged by the Kremlin to stop publicly criticising the war, the Financial Times reported. Mr Deripaska is one of the few Russian tycoons to have voiced cautious criticism of the invasion of Ukraine. He tweeted in March, calling for peace, saying that “we have already passed a point of no return”. He also warned that “destroying Ukraine would be a colossal mistake”.

Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska who criticised Ukraine war has $1bn hotel complex seized