Trump, Ukraine and Russia
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President has become increasingly frustrated with Russian leader as efforts to broker Ukraine ceasefire have faltered
President DONALD TRUMP ’s about-face on sending weapons to Ukraine is moving some GOP holdouts on the Hill back into Kyiv’s column. But it’s not yet amounting to a Republican resurgence of support for arming Ukraine — or for passing supplemental funding that would open the door to many more weapons for Kyiv.
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President Donald Trump must know by now that Russian President Vladimir Putin does not want peace, only Ukraine's surrender.
These demands – virtually unchanged since the beginning of the war – include a lifting of sanctions against Russia and no Nato membership for Ukraine, while also insisting that Kyiv must accept limits on its future military forces and recognise Russia’s annexation of Crimea and four regions on the Ukrainian mainland.
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The popular newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets claimed Trump's attempts to end the Ukraine war on his terms had been a "dismal failure".
President Donald Trump said Monday the United States will send additional weapons to Ukraine, after Russia claimed new gains in its grinding war against its neighbour.