The melodrama repeated a well-worn cycle. Putin reacted when Trump looked like he might impose a price for Russian intransigence. Then the US president, after speaking to Putin, imposed pressure on Ukraine to give up territory. Then the process hit a wall again, leaving Trump frustrated.

Russia said on Tuesday its conditions for peace in Ukraine remained unchanged since the August summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and that it was unclear when their next meeting would take place.

A reporter hit back at the White House with a stinging response Tuesday, saying "I don't apologize at all" following his now-public text spat with Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. "I routinely say that the president lies,

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky failed to obtain Tomahawk missiles for strikes on Russia from a meeting with Donald Trump on Friday, with the US president later calling for both sides to cease fighting and accept current battle lines.

HuffPost's SV Date rejected the "left-wing hack" label that Karoline Leavitt branded him with, saying he must point out President Trump routinely "lies."

President Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House to discuss ending the War in Ukraine.

President Donald Trump’s hopes for a quick meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin have stalled out, with an administration official telling CNN on Tuesday there were “no plans” for a summit between the two “in the immediate future.

Renewed Russian attacks, following the apparent collapse of a planned Trump-Putin meeting, show that a negotiated solution to the war remains distant.