I n just three weeks, President Donald Trump has exploded long-standing U.S. foreign policy and sided with Russia against Ukraine and

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Russia was not opposed to Europe's involvement in Russia-U.S. peace talks aimed at settling the conflict in Ukraine, but noted that Brussels had long rejected any dialogue with Moscow.

The Kremlin appeared to dismiss comments made by Donald Trump about the deployment of European troops in Ukraine. Earlier this week, the U.S. president claimed that his Russian counterpart would be open to allowing European troops as a peace guarantee in Ukraine.

After secretly helping Trump's last three presidential campaigns, Russia is getting its money's worth from him.

As Ukraine balks at Trump’s efforts to seize its mineral reserves, the Russian president just suggested that the U.S. could access minerals … in Russian-held Ukraine.