Donald Trump's decisions to halt U.S. military aid and the sharing of intelligence with Ukraine could have "catastrophic" ramifications, said Simon Schama.

President Donald Trump threatened new sanctions on Russia, including on its banking sector, in response to Moscow’s continued bombardment of Ukraine. Later, the US president still sounded conciliatory toward Russia’s Vladimir Putin,

President Trump’s admiration for President Vladimir Putin of Russia has been endlessly dissected, but the American leader’s policy shifts since taking office again could have profound effects.

Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Alexander Darchiev, a veteran diplomat known in the past for public denunciations of the West, as ambassador to the United States on Thursday to lead a rapprochement that has stunned Ukraine and European countries.

Isenyuka ry’imigenderanire hagati ya Ukraine na Amerika ryoba akaga gakomeye cane kuri Kyiv, ariko rikaba akarusho kanini kuri Moscou.

The speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin, said on Friday that Britain would have to return Moscow money that London had decided to illegally gift to Ukraine to fund Kyiv's military.

Hitler regretted the deal he made with Neville Chamberlain at Munich in 1938. What he actually wanted was war—his goal was to conquer all of Czechoslovakia by force as a first step toward the conquest of all Europe.

The Kremlin said on Thursday that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio's view that the Ukraine conflict is a proxy war between the United States and Russia is in line with Russian President Vladimir Putin's own assessment.

President Donald Trump said during his congressional address that he had received strong signals that Russia was ready for peace.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky labelled it as "genocide". Former US Army Europe commander Ben Hodges warned that a war against NATO could see Russia targeting crucial transport infrastructure, implying "airports and seaports" could be under threat.

Elon Musk had no time for critics claiming he is sympathetic to Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying that he once even challenged Putin to “one on one physical combat.” Replying to a user on X on Sunday who asked the billionaire to “stop pretending that Putin isn’t the aggressor” and accused him of “only criticizing Ukraine but not Putin for some reason,