The US-Russia summit lets Putin get back to the top table of international diplomacy and thumb his nose at critics. Here’s what else he stands to gain.

President Trump has largely held back from harsh criticism of Vladimir V. Putin personally, despite recent complaints about Russian intransigence in ending the war in Ukraine.

Service members of the 58th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces fire a cannon of a BTR-4 armoured personnel carrier during military exercises at a training ground, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine,