U.S. President Donald Trump said on July 6 that his administration is "helping a lot" when it comes to Ukraine, defending his approach to the ongoing war. "I am helping Ukraine. I'm helping it a lot," Trump told reporters when asked in Washington why the U.

A White House official said that a call was not scheduled to take place on July 3 with Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Trump had hoped to end the war between the two nations quickly after returning to office,

President Trump said on Thursday he made no progress in his call with Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding the war in Ukraine. Why it matters: The call took place amid a stalemate in Trump's efforts to end the war between Russia and Ukraine and two days after the U.