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."

Nearly two weeks after Ukraine’s audacious “Operation Spiderweb” drone strike destroyed numerous Russian strategic bombers, Vladimir Putin’s promised retaliation has been limited to more “routine” drone and missile barrages,

A concentrated, nine-minute-long Russian drone attack on Ukraine's second largest city of Kharkiv in the middle of the night killed three people and injured 64, including nine children, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday.