President Trump is looking for more than just a mineral deal with Ukraine. Trump wants Ukrainian President Zelenskyy to change his attitude toward peace talks and to have a willingness to make concessions to Russia,

Russia has repeatedly painted modern Ukraine as a Nazi state, in a crass distortion of history. Putin had already seized Ukraine's Crimean peninsula eight years earlier, after a revolution that ousted Ukraine's pro-Russian president and replaced him with a more pro-Western government.

Advisers to United States President Donald Trump are working on a plan to ease sanctions against Russia, according to Bloomberg. “Trump’s advisers are sketching out how they might ease the sanctions imposed on Russia because of the war,