A mere hours after President Donald Trump claimed that Vladimir Putin had agreed to stop attacking Ukraine because of the cold weather there, the Russian dictator rained down more than 100 drones and a ballistic missile on the neighbor he is still trying to take by force.

Russia and Ukraine said on Friday they had halted strikes on each other's energy infrastructure but differences emerged over the timeframe for the moratorium and there was uncertainty about the next s...

“I personally asked president Putin not to fire into Kyiv and various towns for a week and he agreed to do that,” Mr Trump said during the meeting.