Peter Baker, a veteran journalist and former Moscow correspondent for the New York Times, compared the White House’s decision to Kremlin tactics.
After secretly helping Trump's last three presidential campaigns, Russia is getting its money's worth from him.
Baker argued some ominous parallels between Trump’s press pool shake-up and the early days of Putin in Russia.
UK PM Keir Starmer meets Donald Trump to discuss a long-term peace agreement for Ukraine, warning "it can't be peace that rewards the aggressor".
The first contacts with the new American administration give us some hope,” the Russian president said in televised comments on Thursday.