Senator Chris Murphy lays out, with chilling clarity, a flurry of destructive decisions over a single week that expose a deeply sinister reality: Trump is doing Moscow's bidding, gutting sanctions, choking off vital air defenses, and leveraging America's foreign policy to force a capitulation of Ukraine tailored entirely to the Kremlin. Chris Murphy, U.S. senator : “I think you have to see all of this is part of a pattern. Zelenskyy has said this out loud but it seems pretty obvious that Trump has decided he's going to put Ukraine in a position where they may be pressured to capitulate. You've got the decision on diesel sanctions that he's going to allow Russia to sell diesel on the world market which helps them fund the war. He just announced he's not going to implement any of the congressional sanctions that were authorised just a week ago. The news tonight that he is slow walking or not selling any additional interceptors to Ukraine and Star shield being down. This is a pattern of behavior over the course of about a week that looks to be a strategy, a strategy to put Russia in the most powerful position possible in order to gain a settlement, a ceasefire that is on Russia's terms. It's just absolutely devastating there's no reason for it, frankly Ukraine was making really important gains on the battlefield over the course of the last year, notwithstanding Trump's refusal to help. And I guess putin has called in a favour, using whatever leverage he has over the president, and you're seeing the results of that in this series of decisions.”