Trump has generally veered away from overtly criticizing Putin while openly berating Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky, but has repeatedly condemned Russia's lethal airstrikes and floated that the Kremlin could be "tapping us along."

US President Donald Trump called his latest conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin "good," but noted that it hasn't brought any results yet, according to Trump’s remarks on the Pod Force One podcast.

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine told senators Wednesday that he did not believe Russian President Vladimir Putin would stop at Ukraine if he succeeds in overtaking the country, a marked contrast to President Trump’s typical ambiguity on the question.

Russia has dispersed nuclear-capable bombers to a remote airbase 400 miles from Alaska after a Ukrainian drone attack wiped out part of its fleet. Satellite images shared with The i Paper by Planet Labs showed two Tupolev TU-160 planes at the Anadyr airbase in Russia’s far eastern Chukotka region,