Kelly McParland: Oval Office Slapstick Brings Ukraine No Closer to Peace

Kelly McParland: Oval office slapstick brings Ukraine no closer to peace

One thing you can say about the presidency of Donald Trump is that it’s seldom boring. Just this week we’ve had the spectacle of the U.S. president fawning over a tyrant from Russia the way a kid at a hockey game might gawk goggle-eyed at Connor McDavid or Nathan MacKinnon, followed by a mad dash across the Atlantic as the elected heads of Europe rushed desperately to Washington in hopes of stopping Trump from unilaterally announcing any new bad…

Why the Oval Office map of Ukraine matters

During Oval Office talks on Monday, a US map showed Russia controlling 99 per cent of Luhansk, 76 per cent of Donetsk, and 73 per cent of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, among other regions. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy disputed these figures, saying Russia’s real advances since November 2022 amounted to only 5,842 sq km, less than one per cent of the country’s territory