President Donald Trump has been able to count the Rupert Murdoch-controlled media empire as an ally for the past decade – but the New York Post and Fox News drew a red line on Friday, pushing back on the president’s defense of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Peace talks this week between Russia and the U.S. aimed at ending three years of war in Ukraine have not impressed front-line Ukrainian troops, who see no quick end to the fighting if Kyiv is left out of negotiations.

Monday marks the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The war — which the Kremlin once characterized as a “special military operation” to discipline an insubordinate neighbor — has sprawled across hundreds of miles of front lines,