Ukraine denies Trump claims that 'thousands' of its troops are surrounded

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : The Kremlin is lining up a phone call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin after the Russian leader spoke with a senior US official last night.
49% : However, the unit had its funding paused by Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), despite helping to successfully reunite families after passing information to Ukrainian authorities, according to the i paper.
42% : Donald Trump has said he requested "strongly" that Vladimir Putin spare the lives of Ukrainian troops who remain in Kursk.
38% : His comments came after Donald Trump appealed to him to spare the lives of "thousands of Ukrainian troops completely surrounded" by Russian forces in Kursk.
37% : "Reports of the alleged 'encirclement' of Ukrainian units by the enemy in the Kursk region are false and fabricated by the Russians for political manipulation and to exert pressure on Ukraine and its partners," the general staff wrote online. Open-source intelligence analysts confirmed Kyiv's claim, saying no current evidence suggests the troops are at risk of encirclement.
33% : "We had very good and productive discussions" in Moscow, Trump said, despite repeated claims by the Ukrainian president that Putin is "sabotaging diplomacy" by setting "unacceptable conditions" for a truce.
32% : Its general staff instead accused Russia of fabricating reports for "political manipulation and to exert pressure on Ukraine and its partners", while Volodymyr Zelensky said Vladimir Putin was lying about the battlefield situation.
32% : Karoline Leavitt has confirmed there was no call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin yesterday.
31% : "Putin is afraid to tell President Trump directly that he wants to continue this war and keep killing Ukrainians," the Ukrainian president said in his nightly address.
20% : " Why has Donald Trump just posted that "thousands" of Ukrainian troops are surrounded in Kursk? It will not be because of his own intelligence briefings.
19% : Vladimir Putin believes Donald Trump is weak and open to manipulation, according to a European intelligence official.
15% : JD Vance has said he would be "shocked" if Donald Trump agreed to move US nukes to Poland.
14% : Vladimir Putin had three options: accept Ukraine's ceasefire offer, but surrender momentum on the battlefield; reject it and risk antagonising Donald Trump; or try to drag things out so he can continue fighting as long as possible.
13% : Donald Trump has said "many more" people will die if a ceasefire and final deal with Russia isn't signed.

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