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1 day ago | kyivpost.com | Alex Raufoglu

WASHINGTON DC – The top Democrats in the US Senate lash out at President Donald Trump for failing to stand up against Putin in light of Russia’s latest mounting deadly barrage on Ukrainian cities, Kyiv Post’s Washington correspondent reports from Capitol Hill. The move came just days after the US President Donald Trump announced that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin vowed during a phone call with him that Moscow was seeking “revenge” for the Ukrainian operation targeting his bomber fleet.

1 day ago | kyivpost.com | Alex Raufoglu

The United States said on Thursday that it remains committed to peace talks between Ukraine and Russia after President Donald Trump likened the war – begun when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukrainian territory – to a kids’ brawl, saying “let them fight.” “President [Trump] wants to see those direct talks happen,” State Department’s Principal Deputy Spokesperson Tommy Pigott told Kyiv Post’s Washington correspondent during a daily briefing when pressed about Trump’s comments.

2 days ago | kyivpost.com | Alex Raufoglu

US Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Thursday urged for what she described as “maximum pressure” against Russia over Ukraine, saying that she hopes President Donald Trump “realizes that giving into [Vladimir] Putin is not the right path forward.” “The Ukrainian people are not giving in,” Shaheen said addressing a Brookings Institution webinar, citing the recent Ukrainian strike deep inside Russia which took out a third of the Russian...

2 days ago | kyivpost.com | Alex Raufoglu

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he is “with Ukraine,” when asked about US support to the war-torn country. “Yeah, I’m with Ukraine. We just signed a big deal on rare earth with Ukraine... You know what I’m for, stopping killing, really, that’s what I’m for again, a war that would have never started, should have never started,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office as he welcomed Germany’s new Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.

3 days ago | kyivpost.com | Alex Raufoglu

WASHINGTON DC – A senior Ukrainian delegation on Wednesday wrapped up a high-stakes trip to the US that was originally aimed at convincing President Donald Trump and his administration to not be deceived by what they describe as “Russian obfuscation.” The top Ukrainian officials spent two days in Washington trying to explain to Americans that despite recent Istanbul meetings, the Kremlin was not bracing for peace – not at least in the short term.