Putin, Trump and Ukraine
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U.S. President Donald Trump said he and Russian President Vladimir Putin did not reach a deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine after talks in Alaska on Friday, as the two leaders offered scant details on what was discussed but heaped praise on one another.
The problem is that they have no strategy of their own for ending the Ukraine war, other than hoping to contain Russia over the longer term.
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U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that President Trump's diplomacy had brought "us closer than ever before" to ending the war in Ukraine. The British leader also praised "the openness" of the U.S.
Nick Bettin is not the first Saskatoon resident to leave the safety of Canada for the war embattled country. But he is the first to plant Canadian flags in Independence Square in Kyiv to commemorate two Saskatchewan men who died defending Ukraine against Russia.
"The rational world is behaving irrationally by giving him this welcome," she said. Putin's plane had been escorted into the airbase in Alaska by four American fighter jets and as he strolled down the red carpet,
MSNBC Political Analyst Ben Rhodes joins MSNBC’s Ali Velshi to discuss “Donald Trump’s reality” versus actual reality where Vladmir Putin is escalating a war in Ukraine and “is not afraid of Donald Trump.