Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York speculated that President Donald Trump’s recent jabs at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky are meant to “irritate.”

Ukraine is approaching its third-year anniversary of the Russian invasion. While Zelensky has maintained control of its capital Kyiv, Russian President Vladimir Putin claims to have annexed Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhya, and Kherson regions in the south and east of Ukraine since September 2022. York reacted to Trump’s recent criticisms of Zelensky, which included blaming the Ukrainian president for the war.