The US will have to send more weapons to Ukraine because it is getting “hit very hard now”, Donald Trump has vowed in a major U-turn on military assistance, adding he was “not happy” with Vladimir Putin.

"We're going to send some more weapons – we have to. They have to be able to defend themselves," Trump said of Ukraine July 7.

Does President Donald Trump even know what he would like Russia and Ukraine to do in the war they’ve been fighting for 3½ years? Both Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky have emerged from recent phone calls with Trump believing that the man in the White House is on their side—but subsequent events have shown otherwise,