Contrary to Trump’s claim, it was actually former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper who helped boot Putin from the G8. Several months after Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, Harper confronted Putin at a private leaders’ retreat ahead of the G20 summit in Australia.

But halting progress, ever-more deadly drone attacks and unmoving negotiating positions seem to have taken their toll. On Thursday, Trump used a striking analogy to concede the warfare was nowhere near over, and that he did not, at that moment, feel it was best to intervene.

Tinatin Japaridze, an analyst with Eurasia Group, joined "Forbes Newsroom" to discuss the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine.

MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Friday that the war in Ukraine was an existential question for Russia, after U.S. President Donald Trump likened it to a playground fight.

In a dramatic analogy, U.S. President Donald Trump compared the Russia-Ukraine war to a children's brawl, saying it's better to “let them fight for a while” before peace is enforced. During his Oval Office meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz,

Donald Trump has been swiftly corrected by Friedrich Merz after the US President asked the German leader whether D-Day was a "pleasant day" for his country. During a meeting at the White House on Thursday,

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called on the US to apply more pressure on Russia to end its three-year-old war on Ukraine. “You know that we gave support to Ukraine and that we are looking for more pressure on Russia,

Trump had drawn the analogy during an Oval Office meeting with German Chancellor Freidrich Merz, and said sometimes you are better off letting children fight for a while before pu

Russian President Vladimir Putin told US President Donald Trump in a phone call Wednesday that Moscow was obligated to respond to Ukraine’s weekend drone attack, Trump said, setting up a potential escalation in the conflict just as the US president hopes to broker an end to the war.

President Donald Trump says he doubts Russia's Vladimir Putin wants to end his war in Ukraine — expressing new skepticism that a peace deal can be reached soon His comments come only a day after ...

President Donald Trump took questions from reporters at the G7 summit in Canada and said that Russian President Vladimir Putin was insulted after being thrown out of the G8 summit. Trump went on to say he understands that Putin took offense and stated that Putin "doesn't even speak to the people that threw him out.