Putin sent troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, amid Kyiv’s bid to join NATO that he described as a “red line” for Moscow. He had cast the alliance’s eastward expansion as a major threat to Russia and sought NATO’s guarantees that it would never offer membership to Ukraine.

President Trump on Thursday said he would like to see Russia reinstated in the Group of Seven (G-7) major economies and suggested various actors other than Moscow were to blame for Russia’s