Bessent to Visit Ukraine as Zelenskyy Pitches Territory Swap With Russia

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will travel to Ukraine to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and discuss the United States’ financial involvement in the country. President Donald Trump announced on Feb. 11 that Bessent would meet Zelenskyy in Ukraine, suggesting that the United States had not seen adequate battlefield results for the amount of money it has spent in support of Kyiv in its war with Russia. “This war must and will end soon—too much death and destruction,” Trump wrote on the Truth social media platform. “The U.S. has spent billions of dollars globally, with little to show.” Trump has promised on the campaign trail to bring Kyiv and Moscow into cease-fire negotiations on day one of his presidency and has thus far struggled to hammer out an agreement supported by the warring parties....