General Keith Kellogg, Trump’s envoy to Ukraine and Russia, and State Secretary Marco Rubio were central to this effort. Since February, Kellogg has been sidelined from direct negotiations between U.S.

"I go home, I tell the First Lady, ‘I spoke with Vladimir today. We had a wonderful conversation.’ She said, ‘Oh, really? Another city was just hit.’" The post Trump Brutally Rips Into Putin For Repeatedly Misleading Him: ‘The Talk Doesn’t Mean Anything’ first appeared on Mediaite.

President Trump’s recent shift to a more hawkish stance on Ukraine, including a new round of arms sales and a vitriolic diatribe against Vladimir Putin, is seen by some as a “betrayal” of his “America First” rhetoric.

Russian strongman Vladimir Putin has privately told both President Trump and Iranian officials that he supports a nuclear deal in which Tehran is unable to enrich uranium, sources told Axios.

Former Trump White House advisor turned MAGA podcaster, Steve Bannon, warned on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s new hardline against Russia The post ‘Trip Into Nuclear War’: Bannon Sounds the Alarm on Report Trump Wants to Give Ukraine Long-Range Missiles to Bomb Moscow first appeared on Mediaite.

The Russian president has continued to try and strengthen ties with the U.S. after President Donald Trump returned to office earlier this year.

The paper notes that as Putin rejects U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace proposals, and Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities continue to kill civilians, hopes for a ceasefire deal or a reset in Moscow’s relations with the West are rapidly fading.

Russia has responded to President Trump’s new hardline Ukraine policy with a mix of defiance and veiled threats. -While Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the US ultimatum “very serious,” former president Dmitry Medvedev was more belligerent,

Putin’s grip on power has kept Russia’s political system tightly controlled for decades. If he were to die without a clear plan, the scramble to replace him could reveal hidden tensions among military leaders,