Russia has responded to President Trump’s new hardline Ukraine strategy with a mix of public dismissal and covert military escalation. -While former president Dmitry Medvedev mocked the US threat of secondary tariffs as a “theatrical ultimatum,

US President Donald Trump is trying again to end the war in Ukraine – not by targeting Russia, but by hitting the countries that buy Russia’s oil.

Trump asked Ukraine's Zelensky earlier this month if he could strike Moscow and other Russian targets, the Financial Times reported.