U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to ramp up arms shipments to Ukraine is a signal to Kyiv to abandon peace efforts, Russia said on Thursday, vowing it would not accept the "blackmail" of Washington's new sanctions ultimatum.

President Donald Trump is now comparing the Jeffrey Epstein files to the Russia investigation and other past inquiries that disrupted his first term. But unlike Trump-Russia, many of the president’s supporters are deeply invested in what happened with Epstein.

If Donald Trump believes the Russia scandal and the Jeffrey Epstein scandal are of equal validity, then the White House has a real problem on its hands.

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.

The Ukrainecast team answer all that and explain why Ukraine is unlikely to consider an operation against North Korea. Lucy Hockings and Vitaly Shevchenko are joined by Ukraine correspondent James Waterhouse and BBC Verify's Olga Robinson.

Russian officials and commentators have shown little indication that Moscow is about to change course under new pressure.

Tinatin Japaridze, an analyst with Eurasia Group, joined "Forbes Newsroom" to discuss the latest in the Russia-Ukraine war.

Foreign adversaries did not use cyberattacks on election infrastructure to alter the US Presidential election outcome”