President Donald Trump is now officially on board with a sanctions package aimed at Russia, according to a top GOP senator. Sen.

By Ben Aris in Berlin Ukrainian authorities have awarded development rights for one of the country’s largest untapped lithium deposits to a group of investors connected to former US President Donald Trump,

Trump said teams are "getting a lot closer, maybe very close" to achieving a Ukraine-Russia peace deal, following his conversation with Putin and meeting with Zelenskyy.

A CIA assessment concluded that Ukraine didn't try to kill Russian President Vladimir Putin at his country residence as alleged by the Kremlin, a source with knowledge of the matter told NBC News last week.

Donald Trump has welcomed Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Mar-a-Lago, as the two leaders made initial comments in front of the press. Speaking on the doorstep of his club in Florida before the meeting with Zelenskyy, Trump said “we have the makings of a deal that is good for Ukraine, that is good for everybody”.

Trump has been claiming he is “close” to a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine for almost a year—an embarrassing development for a war he claimed he could end on his first day in office. The Ukrainian president has said that a peace deal is “90 percent ready.” Only time—and the Kremlin—will tell.

During the interview, Trump took a lengthy call from President Gustavo Petro of Colombia, who was clearly concerned after repeated threats that Trump was considering an attack on the country similar to the one on Venezuela. Trump invited my colleagues to stay and listen, though what they heard was off the record.