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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. Reactions continue to pour in from

around the world over yesterday's argument between President Trump and Ukrainian leader

Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office. As NPR's Charles Mainz reports, Trump is finding plenty of support in Moscow.

The Kremlin has yet to weigh in directly on the White House meeting, but prominent government

officials took to social media to praise Trump for giving Zelensky, what one called, a public

beatdown. While Zelensky has been largely lauded in the West for his leadership amid the

Russian invasion, propagandists in Moscow have long depicted him as both fascist and corrupt.

Russia's foreign ministry issued a statement seemingly designed to appeal to Trump's argument it was

Kiev, rather than Moscow, holding up a potential peace deal. The ministry claimed that Zelensky

had, quote, used lies and manipulation to continue fighting in bilk Western military aid, viewed the current White House appears to share.

Charles Mainz, NPR News.

New leadership in the Trump Justice Department continues to take actions against career prosecutors.

The acting U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., has demoted

at least seven top prosecutors in the U.S. attorney's office. And peers Ryan Lucas has more.

One of them is John Crabb. He was a supervisor in the office. He was involved in the cases

against Trump allies, Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro. Greg Rosen, he led the capital

siege unit that prosecuted January 6 cases. Two of the other attorneys worked on two of the most

high-profile cases to come out of the Capitol Riot investigation. The prosecution against

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