US President Donald Trump said he thinks Vladimir Putin wants peace. Ukraine and its European allies don’t believe he does. More than anything, Putin wants to see a new global order — with Russia playing a starring role.

Kremlin propagandists have suggested that Vladimir Putin has President Donald Trump where he wants him following the leaders' phone call on Tuesday. Pundits on the Russia 1 channel said the conversation about Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine went perfectly and showed Moscow is on the verge of victory in a new Cold War.

U.S. President Donald Trump bragged earlier this week that gasoline prices are down since he took office in January — proof, the White House claims, that his economic policies are working. A more accurate reason could be that the world’s two biggest economies — America and China — are both slowing,

In an echo of the Yalta Conference in 1945, the American and Russian leaders will talk on Tuesday about who gets what in the process of ending the war in Ukraine.