Ukraine’s Zelenskyy has a very bad week thanks to Trump and Putin

Trump said he had talked to Russian President Vladimir Putin, adding it was unlikely that Ukraine would get back occupied territory or that it would join NATO.

KYIV, Ukraine — Roman Baklazhov knows the pain, both physical and emotional, of watching as the Russian war machine seizes a home.

The Ukrainian furniture maker says he was detained for 54 days with little explanation when Russian troops overran his city, Kherson, in the summer of 2022. Baklazhov, 43, says he was tortured with electricity, while next door to his squalid cell Russian troops laughed and drank as they listened to his screams.

“The scariest part about being in captivity was the thought that my child won’t recognize me after all of that,” he told NBC News.

On Baklazhov’s birthday, his injured cellmate died a slow, agonizing death, the corpse laying next to him for hours, he said. “I can still see him, his shirt and his smell.” 

He was released in August 2022, but those memories are never far from his mind when he watches President Donald Trump deliver bombshell statements about the potential carving up of Ukraine — comments that have shocked Ukrainians and their supporters across the West.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ukraine-zelenskyy-trump-putin-talks-invasion-rcna191431

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