US President Donald Trump suggested that Ukraine “may be Russian someday,” throwing into question the future independence of a sovereign country that, with Western backing, has defended itself against Moscow’s full-scale invasion for nearly three years.

WASHINGTON—President Trump is dispatching Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to Ukraine to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky, as Trump tries to end the nearly three-year-old war. “This War MUST and WILL END SOON — Too much Death and Destruction,