Mick Hartley

Peter Brookes in the Times this morning:

Times lead:

President Trump said he found it “easier” to deal with Russia than Ukraine as he claimed that President Putin was “doing what anybody else would do” by intensifying his bombing of the war-torn country.

The US president, who has been widely criticised for his willingness to trust Putin and see the conflict from Russia’s perspective, added that the Kremlin leader “wants to end the war … and I think he’s going to be more generous than he has to be”

The Kremlin's most useful idiot.