The American president’s preference for praising and excusing the Russian leader has yielded no progress toward peace in Ukraine.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s phone calls with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine deepened expectations that progress might ... was needed to push peace efforts forward ...

In what is now a semi-regular occurrence, the workings of U.S.-led global diplomacy has cast a dark shadow over Ukraine. U.S. President Donald Trump spoke with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin,

U.S. President Donald Trump’s phone calls with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine deepened expectations that progress might soon be made on ending those countries’ more than three-year war ...

President Trump and Russian officials are engaged in a war of words, a sign of escalating tensions between the two powers as Trump grows increasingly frustrated over the lack of progress toward a

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After earlier suggesting he might step away from efforts to negotiate peace between Russia and Ukraine, President Donald Trump now appears ready to re-engage in the process. According to Russian news agency Tass,

Kyiv said it was committed to the search for peace, but that it was waiting for a memorandum from the Russian side setting out their proposals.