Former prisoners of the Soviet Union's communist regime have written a letter addressing Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy clash in the Oval Office.

Arguably one of the greatest proponents of Democracy of the 20th Century, Lech Wałęsa has written to Donald Trump over Ukraine

Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper has published an article that has reignited speculation about Donald Trump's alleged ties to Russia amid claims that the US president may have been recruited by the KGB during a visit to Moscow in the 1980s.

Lech Wałęsa, along with 38 other Polish political prisoners, addressed an appeal to US President Donald Trump, in which they compared the atmosphere of his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on Friday to interrogations of the communist government,

They recalled the commitments of the Budapest Memorandum.

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung columnist Jan Brachmann speculates on Donald Trump's potential ties to Russia, suggesting he may have been recruited by the KGB in 1987 during a visit to Moscow and Leningrad.