Two of President Donald Trump’s top advisers declined to describe Russia as the aggressor in the war in Ukraine, as the administration seeks Vladimir Putin’s support for a peace deal.

Trump is now convening with his Cabinet for the first time in his second term. Seated next to Trump are Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. In the r

The Illinois Democrat countered Hegseth's curious refusal to name Russia as the aggressor in the Ukraine war with his own work as a former Fox News host.

At last week’s Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting in Brussels, newly minted U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared that the position of the U.S. government was that Ukraine will not join NATO.

I gathered two things from Vice President J. D. Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s remarks in Europe. First, Europe was not doing enough militarily for Ukraine, its own defense

On the day before the third anniversary of the brutal, lawless invasion of Ukraine, “Fox News Sunday” host Shannon Bream pressed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on whether it’s “fair to say” that Russia’s attack was unprovoked.

A U.S. official says Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered U.S. Cyber Command to halt offensive cyber operations against Russia. NBC News’ Yamiche Alcindor reports on how the Trump administration is changing its posture towards Russia amid tensions with Ukraine.

U.S. President Barack Obama announced America’s “pivot to Asia”– only for conflicts from Afghanistan to Ukraine to bog him down. In Brussels last week, however, newly installed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth renewed the United States’s pledge to refocus on China.

The US president has upended America's longstanding support for Ukraine and sidelined Europe in the process. US defence secretary Pete Hegseth says European security is no longer a US priority. Vice-President JD Vance attacks the very nature of European democracy.

The Soviets ended up winning the Winter War, but it was a Pyrrhic victory for Moscow. U.S. secretary of defense Pete Hegseth’s recent controversial statement that Ukraine’s “borders won’t be rolled back to what everybody would like them to be in 2014” has caused much consternation for Ukraine and its supporters.

In war there is no substitute for victory." While MacArthur was referring to wars engaged in by the U.S., his philosophy could also be applied to the war between Russia and Ukraine. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth appeared to let the cat out of the bag when he wrongly stated even before peace negotiations begin that Ukraine should not expect to regain territory lost to Vladimir Putin's invasion of the sovereign nation.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz both refused to call Russia the aggressor in the Ukrainian war, in separate interviews three years after Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion.