Never in U.S. history has an American president been so out of step with the American people for so long on an important foreign policy issue.

The officials in a joint statement said they made progress on creating a security framework for postwar Ukraine and are urging Russia to commit to peace.

Putin has long argued that this has posed a threat to Russia. And it was talk of Ukraine joining NATO that was at least partly used as his rationale for invasion. On the equal and opposite side, both NATO and Europe more broadly, now see Ukraine as its frontline against Russian aggression.

Ukrainian leader Zelensky 'ready to move forward' with personal involvement of US president who instructs envoy Witkoff to meet Putin in Moscow as Russia bombards Kyiv

Now almost four years into a war Russia started and with little to show for President Trump's peace efforts, Oklahoma's senior U.S. senator says, "Putin doesn’t really want peace, he wants to dominate his neighbors.

The commander-in-chief of Ukraine's armed forces accused Russia of stalling peace talks to capture more land by force on the frontlines.

The White House national security strategy lays out its conflict with Europe amid the Ukraine war—follow Newsweek's live coverage.