We normally don’t comment on political statements, however in his 23 APR 2025 social media post US President Donald J. Trump made 9 (nine!) factually false or misleading statements about UA so we had to address that.
🧵w/ references ->
Statement #1: misleading.
Ref.:
Statement #1: misleading (cont-d).
Additionally, the USA also can *not* legally recognize the occupation of Crimea (or any other part of Ukraine for that matter).
Ref.: treaties.un.org/Pages/showDeta…
Statement #2: misleading.
Numerous detentions and arrests & widespread censorship against pro-UA voices by RU occupational forces in Crimea are well described (euromaidanpress.com/2024/06/10/act…), including by Donald Trump's US State Department in 2019 (state.gov/reports/2019-c…).
Statement #3: false.
In reality on 18 MAR 2014, the first UA soldier in now 11-years long RU invasion of Ukraine was killed in Simferopol, **Crimea** (radiosvoboda.org/a/29204809.html).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serhiy_Ko…
Statement #4: false.
1) There was only a single dedicated “submarine base” (K-825) in Crimea.
2) It was closed in 1993 and in 2003 turned into a **museum** (!) that was open until at least 2019, even under RU occupation from 2014.
radiosvoboda.org/a/rfe_rl-rosiy…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_mus…
Here is for example a clip from Top Gear BBC TV show filmed at the base/museum in 2013.
Refs.:
-imdb.com/title/tt354400…
-youtube.com/watch?v=o2gEb2…
x.com/Dmojavensis/st…
Top RU officials reiterated numerous times that their goal is effectively destruction of UA statehood: “demilitarization” and effectively russification (“denazification” in Kremlin-speech).
These demands are obviously unacceptable for sovereign Ukraine.
english.nv.ua/nation/kremlin…
On top of that, based on historical precedent, there can be no expectation that Vladimir Putin will honor any agreements in future:
Statement #6: manipulation.
RU progress has effectively stalled since they had to make significant retreats in 2022. The majority of the territorial gains were made by RU in 2022 in the early weeks of the invasion.
economist.com/europe/2025/02… (archived: archive.ph/jFV2B)
This statement could've been considered genuine if Donald Trump’s admin was doing their best to provide UA w/ increased military aid to defend against the illegal RU invasion. Additional air defense systems would particularly be a complete no brainer:
kyivindependent.com/trump-dismisse…
RU committed numerous well documented war crimes in Ukraine (kyivindependent.com/zelensky-137-0…), ranging from killing of civilians to kidnapping of children for which Vladimir Putin is wanted by the International Criminal Court (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abd…).
That's what UA is defending from.
Statement #9: false.
Donald Trump already was a US President in 2017-2021 when the illegal RU invasion and occupation of Ukraine by RU was already ongoing:
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