Ukraine

Trump backs out of peace talks with Putin. The much-anticipated Budapest meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin was put on hold, the New York Times reported Tuesday, after Russian officials said they don’t intend to make a deal to end their war in Ukraine. Trump had been touting the Budapest summit, but canceled it after learning Putin had no interest in his proposal to end the fighting along the current front lines.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s lie: “A ceasefire now would mean only one thing: A large part of Ukraine would remain under Nazi rule,” Lavrov said after a preliminary phone call with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, repeating Russia’s false assertion that they invaded Ukraine to free it from fascism.

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