“Putin will not negotiate as a loser,” one of his longtime associates tells TIME by phone from Moscow. “He knows that winners don’t get punished, and if he wins, all of this” — the sanctions, the tariffs — “will go away.”

Donald Trump has said that he is disappointed but not done with Vladimir Putin, in an exclusive phone call with the BBC. When the US president was pressed on whether he trusts the Russian leader by Chief North America Correspondent Gary O'Donoghue,

In response to the escalating threat, President Trump confirmed that the U.S. will send additional Patriot air defense missiles to Ukraine. He noted that the European Union would finance the purchase of what he described as "various pieces of very sophisticated" U.S. weaponry.

President Donald Trump issued a scathing attack on former president Joe Biden saying that the conflict in Ukraine was a "Biden war" and not related to his administration

A White House official clarified to CNN that when the president referred to ‘secondary tariffs,’ he meant 100% tariffs on Russia and secondary sanctions on other countries that buy Russian oil,” per CNN’s Kevin Liptak.