Trump tells Putin ‘Keep fighting,’ Putin obliges, Hegseth invokes mettle of D-Day troops in Normandy, Trump’s Qatari AF1 may cost $400 million.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told President Donald Trump in a phone call Wednesday that he was obligated to respond to Ukraine’s weekend drone attack, Trump said, setting up a potential escalation in the conflict just as the US president hopes to broker an end to the war.

Ukraine’s bold attacks targeting key assets in Moscow’s war effort have struck a nerve with Russia – which launched another deadly missile and drone attack overnight. Bombs hit Ukraine’s capital Kyiv,