The Russian press is in "celebratory" mood in the wake of the fractious meeting between the US president and vice-president and the Ukrainian president last Friday.

       The BBC's Russia editor in Moscow Steve Rosenberg told the corporation's Newshour radio programme: "When you read the russian newspapers here they are celebratory".

       Russian politician Vyacheslav Nikonov told the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper: "The Western system is collapsing like a house of cards".

       An academic was quoted in the same paper: "Russia cannot conceal its malicious pleasure."

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       Mr Rosenberg also took to X to note the Russian coverage of President Trump and Vice-President Vance's verbal attack on President Zelensky: "I doubt that Donald Trump watches Russian state TV 's weekly news review. But he would surely approve of anchor Dmitry Kiselev's take on Friday's Oval Office drama: “Trump behaved stoically…Trump stood up for Vance like a lion…Trump looked like a [chess] Grandmaster…".

       He told Newshour: "There is this atmosphere of celebration here that having lost the Cold War, more than 30 years on, Russia feels it's turning the tables on the West with this new relationship with America."

       The veteran reporter added that Moscow is unperturbed by Sir Keir Starmer's London summit, held over the weekend.

       "The Russians have been very dismissive of the London summit", he said.

       "I think they believe that whatever peace plan France and the UK and Ukraine come up with, it won’t get through Donald Trump."

       He added: "I think the Russians believe that Moscow is building a new relationship with Washington with the Trump administration, and that Donald Trump would prefer to get on with building this relationship with Russia rather than standing by Ukraine".

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       Meanwhile Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin press secretary, told reporters: "We see that the collective West has partially begun to lose its collectivity.

       "A sort of fragmentation of the collective West has begun - the formation of nuanced positions from a number of countries and groups of countries.

       "There remains a group of countries which rather constitutes the party of war, which declares that it is ready to further support Ukraine in terms of supporting the war."