Russia, Ukraine and Trump
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Russia, Oil and Trump
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President Trump’s threats have raised questions about how much leverage the United States has left with Moscow.
President Donald Trump on Monday sought to increase pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin in a bid to secure an end to Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian air force said Russia launched two Iskander-M ballistic missiles along with 37 Shahed-type strike drones and decoys at Ukraine overnight. It said 32 Shahed drones were intercepted or neutralized by Ukrainian air defenses.
U.S. President Donald Trump unexpectedly shortened his deadline for hitting Russia with the most severe sanctions on its oil exports to date. While the market has called the president’s bluff thus far,
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At least 22 Ukrainians have been killed and another 85 injured in Russian strikes across the country overnight, prompting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to call for “very harsh, truly painful” sanctions on Russia.
The overnight attacks came after President Donald Trump expressed frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin and brought closer the deadline for a ceasefire.
U.S. intelligence had credible foreign sources indicating that the FBI would play a role in spreading the salacious Trump-Russia collusion narrative.
"I'm going to reduce that 50 days that I gave him to a lesser number," President Trump said as he met British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.