evidence: Trump’s policies toward Russia and Ukraine during his presidency [...] Ukraine and Ukrainians with ties to Russian intelligence played a major role in the events leading up to Trump’s first impeachment trial in January 2020. On the one hand, the Trump administration ended the Obama administration’s ban on supplying Ukraine with lethal defensive weapons in its ongoing hostilities with Russia in the Donbas region, and supplied Javelin anti-tank weapons to Kyiv. On the other hand, Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the United States would withhold security assistance to Ukraine unless Ukraine provided damaging information on Joe and Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine. The leaked contents of this phone call led to Trump’s impeachment. [...] The Biden administration has thrown its full support behind Ukraine. It has to date provided $55.7 billion in security assistance. It has provided $175 billion in economic assistance. There are ongoing debates about what advanced weaponry should be supplied and whether Ukraine can use long-range weapons to strike far into Russian territory. While a significant number of NATO members favor admitting Ukraine into NATO once the war is over, Biden himself has said Ukraine is not ready. The Biden administration’s caution on weapons and NATO membership is driven by a fear of escalation which could ultimately involve the United States in a direct war with Russia. It has repeatedly said that there will be no American boots on the ground in Ukraine.