U.S. Sen. Kennedy is pushing back, ever so gently, on President Donald Trump's approach to the war in Ukraine, columnist Stephanie Grace writes. The question is whether he'll put his money where his mouth is.

Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Alexander Darchiev, a veteran diplomat known in the past for public denunciations of the West, as ambassador to the United States on Thursday to lead a rapprochement that has stunned Ukraine and European countries.