President Donald Trump made some false claims to the press while meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Monday – including a long-debunked claim that the US has given Ukraine more than $300 billion in wartime aid.

DONALD Trump has been caught on a hot mic revealing if he really believes Vladimir Putin will agree to a peace deal. The US President was seen speaking to France’s Emmanuel Macron moments

The meeting in Washington was the result of another summit, between Mr Trump and Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, in Alaska last week. That meeting yielded what Mr Putin vaguely called “understandings”,

President Donald Trump and others mocked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in March when he showed up at the White House in his customary military-style fatigues. Zelensky apparently got the message.

President Zelensky said he is open to holding an election in his country, though cited challenges during the war. “Yes, of course,” Zelensky said in response to a question from a reporter. He said one couldn’t happen during war but the goal is to “make possible for people to do democratic,

Zelensky said there were “two parts” that Kyiv needs as part of any peace deal, including a “strong Ukrainian army” featuring Western weaponry, training and intelligence

The Ukrainian leader said Russia can only be ‘forced’ into peace through strength and that he’s looking for President Donald Trump to provide it.

It has been rightly said that what President Trump wants President Zelensky to do would be very bad for Ukraine. Less has been said about how Zelensky could not do the sort of thing Trump put to him on Monday in Washington,