Russia-Ukraine: President Trump was expected to speak with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Monday morning and push him to accept a cease-fire in Ukraine, a day after Russian forces launched one of their biggest drone bombardments of the war.

REUTERS/Alexey Pavlishak/File Photo KYIV/BERLIN/PARIS (Reuters) -For Ukraine and its allies, who spent months trying to win Donald Trump over to their cause in the war started by Russia, it is back to square one.