After years pressing to end U.S. aid to Ukraine, many Republicans have abandoned that position now that President Trump is supporting the country against Russian aggression.

Trump's moves underline his growing disenchantment with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the lack of progress in U.S.-led efforts to secure a ceasefire.

Donald Trump privately urged Ukraine to strike targets deep inside Russia, including Moscow, if supplied with advanced US weapons, signalling a pivotal policy shift in the war and raising stakes for Nato and Kremlin escalation.

After European leaders stepped up military spending, President Trump aligned himself more closely with them on the war. But his tariff threats have left bruises.

President Trump is applying pressure on Moscow by restoring weapons pipelines to Ukraine and imposing tariffs on Russia's trading partners, in an effort to weaken Russia's war economy and prevent further Russian gains in Ukraine.

EDITORIAL. The US president's decision to deliver weapons to Ukraine marks a welcome change, but it does not represent a complete reversal of his position toward Moscow.

To appreciate the dramatic shift in President Donald Trump’s policy towards Ukraine, consider two scenes in the Oval Office, months apart:

This is one of Trump’s favorite rhetorical tics —the conjuring up of a mythical community (“people are saying”) that agrees wholeheartedly with some highly questionable assertion. Who are these people who were surprised by Putin’s lies and obfuscations about the war?

Bolton told Newsweek that Trump's pursuit of a Nobel Prize has clouded his foreign policy, particularly on the war in Ukraine.

The United States is moving to get weapons to Ukraine quickly under President Donald Trump's plan for Europe to buy arms, and is weighing selling Patriot air defence systems from its own stocks, Washington's envoy to NATO said Thursday.