A top Russian state television presenter known as Vladimir Putin‘s ‘Iron Doll’ is revelling in Donald Trump‘s decision not to set any conditions on Russia for peace in Ukraine.
Olga Skabeyeva, a TV host who once threatened to nuke Downing Street, made the shocking comments on Telegram in response to Andrii Yermak, Volodymyr Zelensky‘s chief of staff, saying that Russia could stop the war at any time by ceasing its attacks on Ukraine.
She wrote on the messaging service: ‘[Yermak] forgot that Trump does not set any conditions for Russia and [President] Putin. Only for Zelensky and Ukraine.’
In 2022, Skabeyeva chillingly shared images of Western ‘decision-making centres’ that could be blitzed by Russia, including Downing Street in London and NATO‘s headquarters in Brussels.
Her message coincided with that year’s NATO summit in Madrid – the location of which was also ‘targeted’.
She said: ‘With greetings to the participants of the NATO summit of a bloc openly hostile to Russia.
‘Look at the screen but do not be afraid, please.
‘The Russian Space Agency published satellite images and exact coordinates of what we call the ‘decision-making centres’ of Western countries.
Olga Skabeyeva (pictured), a TV host who once threatened to nuke Downing Street , made the shocking comments on Telegram
Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile launch on April 20, 2022
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) talks with US President Donald Trump (R) in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 28 February 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures during the Expanded Board of the Ministry on March 5, 2025, in Moscow, Russia
‘And the venue of the summit in Madrid, where Russia is declared the worst enemy.’
Skabeyeva claimed she was not making a threat, adding: ‘Let them just keep it in mind.’
Trump has been criticised for his negotiations with Russia, as he has publicly offered several key concessions to Putin before ever sitting down with the warmonger.
The Republican leader has said that Putin will be allowed to keep the territory he has taken from Ukraine since 2014, when it annexed Crimea. He current controls about 20% of the country.
On top of this, Trump has said he will not allow Ukraine to become part of NATO, another major concession to Putin.
And the US has repeatedly refused to guarantee Ukraine’s security after the war.
All of this has worried Europe, whose leaders are today meeting to discuss how to finance increased defence spending.
‘Europe faces a clear and present danger on a scale that none of us have seen in our adult lifetime. Some of our fundamental assumptions are being undermined to their very core,’ European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned in a letter to the EU’s 27 leaders, who on Tuesday unveiled an €800bn (£669bn) plan to rearm Europe.
But perhaps the biggest challenge for the EU on Thursday will be to take a united stance at a moment when it’s fractured, since much of what the bloc does requires unanimous support.
Firefighters work at the site of houses destroyed by a Russian air strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in the village of Slatyne, Kharkiv region, Ukraine March 6, 2025
Rescuers carry a wounded person at the site of a hotel building hit by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, in this handout picture released March 6, 2025
A handout photo made available by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine shows rescuers working at the site where a Russian rocket hit a five-storey hotel in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, 05 March 2025
This handout photograph released by the Ukrainian Emergency Service early on March 5, 2025, shows a Ukrainian rescuer working to extinguish a fire at an energy infrastructure facility following an attack at an undisclosed location in Odesa region
But individual states like France are beginning to step up.
Last night, French president Emmanuel Macron gravely said he is open to discussing how to extend the protection offered by nuclear missiles to his nation’s European allies.
Russian Security Council Deputy Chairperson Dmitry Medvedev said yesterday that US weapons supplies to Ukraine will ‘most likely resume’ but that Moscow’s ‘main task’ remains ‘inflicting maximum damage’ to Ukraine.
Medvedev also indicated Moscow’s awareness that it could have a short amount of time to make the most of the US suspension of aid to do so.
Putin’s forces exploited the previous suspension of US military aid early last year, including by trying to seize Kharkiv City in May 2024 before US military support restarted.
British, French and German soldiers have been told they face defeat and death from Russia if they are sent as ‘peacekeepers’ to end the war in Ukraine.
One leading Putin politician mocked Sir Keir Starmer for seeking to be a ‘cool British prime minister’ by sending troops, warning: ‘It has been a long time since we fertilised the Crimean vineyards with [the corpses of] British officers.
‘We are waiting, Starmer, the time has come.’
And a prominent Russian army general told President Emmanuel Macron he could gather a 50,000 ‘little frogs’ multinational army, but they would be beaten by Putin’s forces, with Europe and NATO ‘ceasing to exist’.
Moscow is vehemently opposed to the ‘boots on the ground’ proposals of Starmer and Macron as part of a peace deal to offer security to Ukraine against another Putin invasion.
Dmitry Rogozin – a senator, former Putin deputy premier, and ex-head of the Russian Space Agency – said: ‘What did this Starmer say? More precisely, what did he want to say?
‘It was like, I’m such a cool British Prime Minister, now I’ll gather my courage and send the royal army and navy to Russia!
‘Send them, Starmer, don’t talk, send them!
‘Don’t forget to give your Scots [soldiers] combat tartan skirts, so that our drones can easily fly in there and kick their spicy asses – [Rogozin was notoriously wounded in the bottom in a shell strike on his birthday party in Donetsk in 2022].
‘Don’t ignore the glorious Irish with the blue plume on their hats, by which our snipers will be pleased to count them in the shabby Zaporizhzhia forest regiments.
‘Don’t miss the moment to put grizzly fur hats on your brave English warriors, who are never dried out in your pubs.
‘They will be very useful in the Donetsk trenches for feeding thousands of local mice.
‘Come on, Starmer, blow your bagpipes, blow to us, brave warrior of the crazy king.’
