The U.S. offered a draft U.N. resolution that stops far short of a competing European-backed statement demanding an immediate withdrawal of all of Moscow's forces from Ukraine.

The United States formally brought Russia in from the cold Tuesday with high-level talks aimed at ending Moscow’s war with Ukraine and reestablishing long-frozen diplomatic and economic ties. A Trump administration team led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat down for four hours with senior representatives of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Riyadh,

President Donald Trump, addressing a bipartisan group of governors at the White House, said Friday that he’s had “very good talks” with Russian President Vladimir Putin and “not such good talks with Ukraine” about ending the war Russia’s war in Ukraine.