The United States is drawing up a plan to potentially give Russia sanctions relief as President Donald Trump seeks to restore ties with Moscow and stop the war in Ukraine, a U.S. official and another person familiar with the matter told Reuters.
To seasoned diplomatic observers, US President Donald Trump’s furious dressing down of Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office was a planned political mugging, a trap set by the Trump administration to discredit the Ukrainian leader and remove him as an obstacle to whatever comes next.
Trump and Zelenskyy’s White House clash a ‘deliberate escalation’ by US, says Germany’s Merz
In stunning scenes on Friday that sent political shockwaves across Europe, Zelenskyy was mocked and belittled by Trump and Vice President JD Vance, who accused him of not doing enough to end Moscow’s full-scale invasion and being ungrateful for American aid.
White House, Trump and Kremlin
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Senior Russian politicians back Trump over Zelenskiy's 'suicide in the White House'
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Democratic Senator calls Trump's White House 'an arm of the Kremlin' after Zelensky spat
The White House has become ‘an arm of the Kremlin’
A Democratic senator has claimed that the White House has become "an arm of the Kremlin" after Donald Trump and his administration suggested that Ukraine was responsible for starting the war. Chris Murphy accused Washington of adopting Moscow’s stance and criticized the short-lived meeting between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump,
The United States is drawing up a plan to potentially give Russia sanctions relief as President Donald Trump seeks to restore ties with Moscow and stop the war in Ukraine, a US official and another person familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Friedrich Merz said the astonishing White House confrontation on Friday made it almost inevitable that Germany would have to increase defence spending on its military.
A majority of Russians are in favor of peace talks, but a very vocal minority eye US overtures with suspicion and contempt.
Peter Baker, a veteran journalist and former Moscow correspondent for the New York Times, compared the White House’s decision to Kremlin tactics.
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