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As crisis conditions worsen in Ukraine, Trump finds new ways to coddle Russia’s Putin During an event for the World Cup, the president — unprompted — decided to let everyone know about a gift he’d received from Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

Aug. 25, 2025, 8:48 AM EDT

By Steve Benen

It’s been 10 days since Donald Trump hosted a summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin on American soil, which proved to be a humiliating failure for the American president. In the aftermath of Trump’s self-created fiasco, the crisis in Ukraine has only intensified.

Indeed, any evidence of progress is hard to find . Not only has Russia continued its deadly military offensives in Ukraine, including a strike on a U.S.-owned factory last week, but Moscow’s diplomatic posture toward the war it sta

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