Trump wants Russia and Ukraine to freeze the war on the current battlelines, with Moscow holding a huge swathe of eastern Ukraine.

Russia was the first to deploy decoy drones to bolster its Shahed force. Now Ukraine is doing likewise, and Russian air defenses are struggling.

Direct conflict between Russia and NATO was once unthinkable, but preparations and defense spending have been stepped up in nervous Baltic states.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to push Trump for additional long-range weapons capable of striking targets inside Russian territory when he meets with Trump in Washington at the White House on Friday.

The president suggested Ukraine would need to cede territory in the Donbas region as part of his proposed ceasefire deal with Russia.

President Donald Trump told reporters on Sunday thatthe Donbas region of Ukraine should be “cut up," leaving most of it in Russian hands, to end the war.

Former Soviet Union expert Dr. Ronald Suny, and Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and Emeritus Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago,

Showing no respect for Trump's claim to be a master of deal making, Vladimir Solovyov launched a withering critique of the US President's strategy.