US president suggested brokering peace between Russia and Ukraine would help him ‘get to heaven’

US president whispered that Putin ‘wants to make a deal for me’ before meeting with European leaders in the White House

Clinton, a longtime rival of Trump’s, said she would personally nominate the president for the elusive price if he brokered a peace deal that did not ‘capitulate’ to Putin

Former Russian president and prime minister brushed off US officials’s warnings that Russia needs to begin peace deal talks to end the war in Ukraine