Russia launches largest airstrike on Ukraine as Putin projects strength; H.R. McMaster says President Trump will ramp up pressure if peace talks fail.

Does President Donald Trump even know what he would like Russia and Ukraine to do in the war they’ve been fighting for 3½ years? Both Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky have emerged from recent phone calls with Trump believing that the man in the White House is on their side—but subsequent events have shown otherwise,

While Russia is developing a summer offensive on the front lines and increasing strikes at Ukrainian cities, the US is in no hurry to increase military aid to Ukraine or impose new sanctions against Moscow.