Moscow likely wasn't expecting all that. On Friday, February 28, Donald Trump gave Volodymyr Zelensky the beating Vladimir Putin would have liked to give him. After the heated White House altercation between the American and Ukrainian presidents, the Kremlin chief did not react publicly.

But, far from the European reactions saluting Zelensky's courage in the face of Trump and Vice President JD Vance's outbursts, pro-Putin media passed on their messages. The US president has severely reprimanded the "clown," as the Ukrainian president is regularly mocked in Russia; he will stop sending arms to a country that has "big problems" and cannot prevail against the Russian army; Kyiv is playing with the risk of a "third world war;" only Moscow and Washington have "the cards in their hands."

Live from the Oval Office, Trump sounded more like the Kremlin than ever, echoing his expressions, wanting to show himself without censorship or limits, just as Putin claims to be. "For the first time, Trump spoke the truth to the cocaine clown's face. The insolent pig has finally received a solid slap in the face," Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's security council, said on Telegram.

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