Tens of thousands of families are desperately searching for loved ones who have vanished without a trace, three years after the start of Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The number of documented missing persons across the two countries has doubled to 50,000 over the past year, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Russia’s attempt to blame Ukraine, which Trump has now parroted, is part of a longstanding argument that doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.