Some Ukrainian internet users have dubbed Melania Trump an unlikely 'undercover agent' after the U.S. president revealed it was his wife who finally convinced him to turn on Vladimir Putin

Melania Trump has highlighted Russia's continued attacks on Ukraine in private conversations, President Trump said on Monday.

“Putin will not negotiate as a loser,” one of his longtime associates tells TIME by phone from Moscow. “He knows that winners don’t get punished, and if he wins, all of this” — the sanctions, the tariffs — “will go away.”

President Vladimir Putin intends to keep fighting in Ukraine until the West engages on his terms for peace, unfazed by Donald Trump's threats of tougher sanctions, and his territorial demands may widen as Russian forces advance,

The U.S. has “realized that Russia does not really want peace, so in order to have peace, we need to support Ukraine and we need to put the pressure on Russia,” Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, told reporters in Brussels on Tuesday.

Vladimir Putin’s conduct has prompted Donald Trump’s shift as Russia’s war effort in Ukraine has gotten only more aggressive.

US President Donald Trump has said he's "disappointed but not done" with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, who is showing no signs of ending the war in Ukraine.

President Trump privately questioned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about whether Kyiv could blast Moscow and St Petersburg if needed to make Russians “feel the pain” and come

President Donald Trump has softened his stance on NATO. He once called the Western alliance "obsolete." Now, he says, it's the "opposite of that."

WASHINGTON — Ever since his political rise a decade ago, Donald Trump has sung the praises of Vladimir Putin — the Russian president was a “strong leader” who, perhaps more important, would often say “very good things” about him.