- Dmitry Medvedev, a former Russian president and top security official, warned of “World War III” after Donald Trump criticised Vladimir Putin's actions in Ukraine.
- Trump's special envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, responded to Medvedev's comments, calling them “reckless” and “unfitting of a world power,” while stating that Trump is working to stop the war.
- Despite the escalating war of words, US embassy officials attended a security meeting in Moscow, marking the first time an American delegation has attended such an event since before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov suggested that Trump was “a man who wants results” but who had “got emotional”.
- Russian state media and political commentators have downplayed Trump's recent criticisms, with one describing the exchange as a “skirmish across the ocean” and questioning whether America will escalate its stance against Russia.
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