Former Ukraine aid critics now back Trump's strategy requiring European funding for weapons to Kyiv after the president pivoted his frustration from Zelenskyy to Putin.

Seven people were killed in Russian attacks across multiple regions in Ukraine over the past day, as Vladimir Putin refuses to kowtow to US demands to reach a ceasefire deal to end the three-year war.

Trump on Monday said the United States would ship "billions of dollars' worth" of military equipment to NATO members, paid for by the alliance, to be handed over to Ukrainian forces battling grinding Russian advances. Trump had earlier this month suggested NATO would "100 percent" pay for U.S. weapons, which would be sent to Ukraine.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte discusses President Donald Trump's decision to sell weapons to NATO for Ukraine in an interview on 'Special Report.'

Armenia has signalled it could quit the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a security bloc seen as Moscow's version of NATO, after a peace treaty with Azerbaijan

Russia has responded to President Trump’s new hardline Ukraine policy with a mix of defiance and veiled threats. -While Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the US ultimatum “very serious,” former president Dmitry Medvedev was more belligerent,

Trump agrees to sell billions in US arms to NATO countries including Germany, Finland and Denmark and others for quick distribution to Ukraine, following his ultimatum to Putin on peace talks.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte warned that Brazil, China and India will face secondary sanctions from the US if Russia doesn’t negotiate a peace deal with Ukraine, and said they should lean on President Vladimir Putin to agree to a ceasefire.

Despite Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “pathological fixation” on preventing Ukraine from joining NATO, a direct Russian attack on the alliance is highly unlikely. -The war in Ukraine has exposed the Russian military’s significant weaknesses and its limited ability to project power,