Just hours into President Donald Trump’s second term, he has already blown his first deadline.

During a 2023 CNN town hall, Trump bragged that he could end the war between Russia and Ukraine in 24 hours. “I think in terms of getting it settled so we stop killing all these people,” he said.

“I’ll get the war with Ukraine and Russia ended,” Trump announced during an ABC News debate last September. “If I’m president-elect, I’ll get it done before even becoming president.”

Yet as Trump was being sworn into office in a ceremony surrounded by billionaires, the conflict in Ukraine raged on. Over the last 24 hours, Russian troops took control of the village of Vovkove in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, inflicting “more than 510 casualties on Ukrainian troops,” TASS, Russia’s state-run news agency reported on Tuesday, citing the Russian Ministry of Defense. Kyiv said it fired a wave of drones at Russia overnight, sparking a blaze at an oil depot in the western Voronezh region bordering Ukraine. Between Monday and Tuesday, Ukraine counted........

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