Republican Rep. Don Bacon, a staunch supporter of Ukraine, asserts that "real Republicans know that Putin’s Russia hates the West and freedom."

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said President Trump is repeating mistakes he made in Afghanistan by not including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in talks to end his country’s war with Russia.

Most Republicans strongly condemned Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and have voted on multiple occasions to send the country military aid. But with their party’s leader back in the White House, many of them have grown quiet. Are any GOP lawmakers ...

Another senior Republican who had previously been supportive of Zelenskyy, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, seemed to make a dramatic shift. After a deal to give the U.S. access to Ukraine's mineral riches fell apart, Graham suggested that the Ukrainian president should resign.

Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., a Republican moderate, tells reporters he has not changed his mind and will not be voting for Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, to become speaker of the House, following a closed-door GOP meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) AP

President Trump’s recent moves with respect to Ukraine may seem bewildering. But they’re not. He’s partial to the country’s invader.

I can’t afford not to be optimistic,” says Steven Moore, who spends time both delivering aid in Ukraine and debunking propaganda back home.

President Trump has turned the history of the Western world upside down by luring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into the Oval Office and using the occasion to put the United States squarely in the camp of Russian President Vladimir Putin.