Fiona Hill, who served as a Russia analyst on the National Security Council during Donald Trump ’s first term in office, said Sunday on CBS that Vladimir Putin’s decision to push baseless claims against mail-in voting during his summit with the U.S. president is a glaring “manipulation” tactic.

Ahead of the multilateral meeting, President Donald Trump was caught on a hot mic saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to reach a resolution to the war for him. CNN’s chief national affairs correspondent Jeff Zeleny reports.

For more than a decade, the industrial heartland of eastern Ukraine has been the focal point of intense battles and diplomatic disputes between Kyiv and the Kremlin. Now it could be on the table in peace talks with the United States.

As Trump and the leaders of European countries finished their family photo, the group was preparing to begin the summit in earnest.

Trump didn’t end the fighting in Ukraine, but he picked up some praise from Putin about the Republican’s own domestic political fights.

Gabrielius Landsbergis, former foreign minister of Lithuania, discusses the European leaders gathering in D.C. in support of Ukraine's president Zelenskyy's efforts to stop Russia's aggression.

President Trump was joined in the Oval Office on Monday by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders, just days after a face-to-face summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.