President Donald Trump is emphasizing that targeting Russia’s oil revenue is the best way to get Moscow to end its nearly three-year war against Ukraine.

Trump did not mention Ukraine in his inauguration speech but has told reporters that Vladimir Putin would be destroying Russia by not agreeing to a peace deal.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has echoed President Trump’s claims about the war in Ukraine and about the Republican's 2020 election loss.

After breaking a campaign promise about the war in Ukraine, the new president is making matters worse by blaming Ukraine for the conflict Russia started.

Donald Trump criticized Volodymyr Zelensky in his first interview after returning to the White House, saying he "shouldn't have allowed this war to happen."

President Donald Trump has said he wants to hold "denuclearization" talks with Russia and China now he is back in office. Newsweek has contacted the White House and the U.S. embassies of Russia and China for comment via email.

President Donald Trump is threatening to impose stiff taxes, tariffs and sanctions on Russia if an agreement isn’t reached to end the war in Ukraine

President Donald Trump on Wednesday sent a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin telling him to make a deal now to end the war in Ukraine, threatening economic consequences if he doesn't. "It's time to 'MAKE A DEAL.' NO MORE LIVES SHOULD BE LOST!!!" Trump wrote in a new social media post.

President Donald Trump has said multiple times that the war in Ukraine would have never broken out had he been in office.

Trump, who pledged in the campaign that he’d broker a quick end to the grinding conflict, in his first days in office has leaned in on the idea that OPEC+, the alliance of oil producing nations, holds the key to ending the war by reducing oil prices.

Keith Kellogg, US President Donald Trump's special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, has stated that tougher measures against the Russian oil industry could pressure the Kremlin into negotiations to resolve the Russo-Ukrainian war.