Does President Donald Trump even know what he would like Russia and Ukraine to do in the war they’ve been fighting for 3½ years? Both Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky have emerged from recent phone calls with Trump believing that the man in the White House is on their side—but subsequent events have shown otherwise,

Putin tells Trump Russia will continue Ukraine war until achieving its goals, just two days after the U.S. halts some military aid to Ukraine.