1 hour ago US joins North Korea, Russia and Belarus at UN in refusing to blame Putin for Ukraine war

US president Donald Trump also refused to call Russian president Vladimir Putin a dictator

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3 h. ago Donald Trump's handshake with Macron proves subtle tactic in peace talks with dictator Putin

Emmanuel Macron became the first EU leader to meet US president Donald Trump since his return to power as the pair discussed the ongoing war in Ukraine with Russia in the White House

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5 h. ago Trump refuses to call Putin a dictator after Zelensky attack: ‘I don’t use those words lightly’

Donald Trump refused to call Vladimir Putin a dictator on the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, despite having previously described Volodymyr Zelensky with the same term.

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6 h. ago Donald Trump refuses to call war criminal Vladimir Putin a dictator despite branding Zelensky same

Asked in the Oval Office if he would characterise Vladimir Putin as a 'dictator', Donald Trump said: 'I don't use those words lightly' - despite branding President Volodymyr Zelensky the same

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7 h. ago Trump and Macron share awkward long handshake after White House snub

Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron shared an awkward handshake after the US president snubbed his French counterpart by not greeting him at the White House upon his arrival on Monday, 24 February.

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32 h. ago Zelensky says he is not offended by Trump calling him a dictator

Zelensky told a forum on Sunday (23 February), that he wasn’t offended by President Trump’s remark calling him a “dictator.”

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39 h. ago New York City’s Ukrainian community ‘disappointed’ after Trump’s ‘betrayal’

As the US upends decades of foreign policy, those watching the war unfold from miles away resolve to stand strongMembers of New York’s large Ukrainian community expressed a mix of disillusionment, betrayal, defiance and acute uncertainty about what the future holds for Ukraine after tensions escalated this week between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.Geopolitical events in the last week have shocked Ukrainians at home and overseas as well as US lawmakers and allies, as the US president appeared to heavily favor the Russian president Vladimir Putin to dictate peace terms on the eve of the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Continue reading...

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56 h. ago From saviour to Judas How Trump’s pivot on Russia also endangers his own country | Simon Tisdall

With a Putin-appeasing president at the helm, it is clear the transatlantic alliance is collapsing and European leaders must plot their own courseHow do I betray thee? Let me count the ways Apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning for mangling her celebrated poem to reflect Donald Trump’s multiple Ukraine treacheries. This most perfidious of presidents surpassed himself last week, accusing Kyiv of invading itself three years ago . “You should have never started it. You could have made a deal,” he fatuously griped.Candidate Trump, touting a just peace, pledged to end the war in a day. Now he praises Vladimir Putin, claims Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is “a dictator” and backs a settlement on Moscow’s criminal, one-sided terms. This deranged collapse into craven capitulation, this transition from American saviour to American Judas, took less than a month. It’s contemptible. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Trump ducks Putin ‘dictator’ question; GOP voters angered by DOGE purges as 1,500 FBI staff ordered out of DC: Live

Trump’s rhetoric on Russia’s war on Ukraine continues to rile allies as reality of DOGE cuts begins to sink in at home

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4 d. ago Donald Trump's barbed attacks on Volodymyr Zelensky 'to boost' Ukrainian president's popularity

The US president has sparked outrage by blaming Ukraine for starting Putin’s war and branding Volodymyr Zelensky a ‘dictator’

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5 d. ago Is Zelensky more of a 'dictator' than Putin? Poll reveals whether Americans agree with Trump's blistering swipe

Some 1009 registered voters were asked for their one-word descriptions of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky.

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5 d. ago Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have 'crumbled world order' as new 'nuclear' era emerges

Donald Trump's readiness to cosy up to dictator Vladimir Putin while questioning the legitimacy of Volodymyr Zelensky as Ukraine leader has seen the world embark on a new worrying era

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