The Kremlin offered Donald Trump support in his standoff with Volodymyr Zelenskiy, accusing the Ukrainian president of making "inadmissible" remarks about world leaders as a Russian official said he was stunned by how fast the U.

The fact that Zelenskiy's rating is falling is an absolutely obvious trend." Peskov said he didn't want to get into details on numbers though when it came to discussing Zelenskiy's popularity which opinion polls in Ukraine show is above 50%.

Sources in Kyiv tell the BBC that US envoy Keith Kellogg appears increasingly "sidelined" by the Trump administration.