The Trump White House is trying to broker an end to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, approaching its fourth anniversary.

As tensions simmered between the United States and Europe over President Donald Trump’s push to acquire Greenland, Russian officials, state-backed media and pro-Kremlin bloggers watched with a mixture of glee,

It’s been a long-standing Kremlin strategy to drive a permanent wedge between the United States and Europe, dividing and weakening its traditional adversaries in the West.

Trump has used the “hunter” line before. Last June, he told reporters that he waited until his second term to begin a White House building project because “you guys” were “after” him during his first term. “I was the hunted, and now I’m the hunter. It’s a big difference,” he said.

The president is feeling "emboldened" by his strike on Venezuela, which ousted leader Nicolás Maduro, a White House official said.

Trump, who is in Davos for the World Economic Forum, said he would be meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky later in the day. | World News

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov compared President Trump's push for Greenland with Russia's unilateral annexation of the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula of Crimea more than a decade ago. "Crimea is no less important for the Russian Federation than Greenland is for the United States,

Trump extends invitations to multiple countries, including Russia and Belarus to join his proposed "Board of Peace" for Gaza oversight initiative.