President Donald Trump, center, points to members of the media as he speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on August 11 in Washington, DC.
Mandatory Credit:	Alex Brandon/AP via CNN Newsource

President Donald Trump, center, points to members of the media as he speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on August 11 in Washington, DC.
Mandatory Credit: Alex Brandon/AP via CNN Newsource

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Fact check: Trump’s latest fake history about the war in Ukraine

President Donald Trump claimed Monday that he knew why Russian troops weren’t able to enter Kyiv in the days after they invaded Ukraine in 2022. Russia’s tanks, Trump said, got destroyed by missiles “because the tanks got stuck in the mud.”