A concert in Italy featuring Russian conductor Valery Gergiev, who has ties to Putin, is sparking a furor following protests by Alexei Navalny’s wife.

“Putin will not negotiate as a loser,” one of his longtime associates tells TIME by phone from Moscow. “He knows that winners don’t get punished, and if he wins, all of this” — the sanctions, the tariffs — “will go away.”

But Putin appears to be unfazed by these latest development and is refusing to kowtow to Trump and his demands. READ MORE: NATO considers retaliation against Russia as WW3 and plane crash fears soarREAD MORE: Vladimir Putin launches attack on Ukraine a day after Trump's '50 days' threat Instead the Kremlin has intensified its attacks on the White House incumbent,

Vladimir Putin’s conduct has prompted Donald Trump’s shift as Russia’s war effort in Ukraine has gotten only more aggressive.

Keir Starmer, the British prime minister, and Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, are expected to promise today to have their nuclear arsenals work together if Europe is threatened. Private equity firms have entered the $40 billion youth sports industry. Their investments could raise costs for families.

Trump announced fresh military support for Ukraine and threatened sweeping tariffs on Russia's trading partners, in a bid to pressure Moscow into ending its war within 50 days.

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US President Donald Trump on Monday suggested that the First Lady Melania Trump convinced him that Russian President Vladimir Putin has continually backed out of his promises over a possible peace deal with Ukraine.