Putin, Trump and Ukraine
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt reiterated President Donald Trump's statement that no U.S. ground troops will be placed in Ukraine but that the U.S. will help coordinate security guarantees.
US President Donald Trump ruled out sending American troops to help defend Ukraine against Russia after seemingly leaving the possibility open the day before. In a morning TV interview, Trump also said that Ukraine's hopes of joining NATO and regaining the Crimean Peninsula from Russia are both "impossible.
Trump didn’t end the fighting in Ukraine, but he picked up some praise from Putin about the Republican’s own domestic political fights.
Time is ticking on President Donald Trump's two-week timeline for a face-to-face meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Putin seeks "a multilateral system of commitments that includes not only the West but also Russia itself," one expert told Newsweek.
As Karoline Leavitt browbeats reporters for failing to hail Trump as a world-historical peacemaker, an international relations expert explains the deeper reasons his handling of the Russia-Ukraine talks is so alarming.
ESPN's Stephen A. Smith praised Trump for Russia-Ukraine negotiations, as one of the few prominent figures on the left to praise Trump.
Donald Trump has raised the prospect of directs talks between Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, in what would be the first such encounter in more than three years of war between the two countries.