President Trump slammed Russian President Vladimir Putin for dispatching greater than 300 drones and missiles in opposition to Ukraine in a few of the most intense assaults for the reason that warfare first began, only one week after assuring that peace talks would begin “immediately.”
The lethal assaults began as a deliberate prisoner swap between the warring international locations was underway. Below the settlement, both sides is popping over round 1,000 imprisoned combatants and civilians over three days — whilst Russia continues its unrelenting barrage. The ultimate swap was set for late Sunday.
Trump instructed reporters Sunday that he’s “not happy” with the rising violence and that he has no thought “what the hell happened to Putin.”
“I’ve known him a long time, always gotten along with him, but he’s sending rockets into cities and killing people and I don’t like it at all. We’re in the middle of talking and he’s sending rockets into Kyiv and other cities. I don’t like it at all,” Trump mentioned.
“I’m very surprised. We’ll see what we’re going to do….I don’t like what Putin is doing…he’s killing people. Something happened to this guy and I don’t like it.”
He later doubled down on social media, writing that Putin “has gone absolutely CRAZY!”
“Missiles and drones are being shot into Cities in Ukraine, for no reason whatsoever. I’ve always said that he wants ALL of Ukraine, not just a piece of it, and maybe that’s proving to be right, but if he does, it will lead to the downfall of Russia!” Trump wrote on Reality Social.
Russia has spent the final two days straight launching quite a few assaults throughout Ukraine, first on 30 Ukrainian cities and villages on Saturday evening and later specializing in the capital Kyiv on Sunday. Russia claimed it seized three extra villages within the assaults, which Kyiv denied.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky referred to as on the USA to take motion, noting the gall that its inaction encourages.
“The silence of America, the silence of others in the world only encourages Putin. Every such terrorist Russian strike is reason enough for new sanctions against Russia,” Zelensky mentioned in a press release on Sunday.
In early Might, Secretary of State Marco Rubio mentioned the administration would search to impose a 500% tariff on Russian oil and fuel if there was not severe progress made in the direction of a peace settlement. However he famous that the tariffs would depend upon Trump’s will.
Trump, nonetheless, didn’t take kindly to Zelensky’s critiques.
“Everything out of [Zelensky’s] mouth causes problems, I don’t like it, and it better stop. This is a War that would never have started if I were President. This is Zelenskyy’s, Putin’s, and Biden’s War, not ‘Trump’s,’ I am only helping to put out the big and ugly fires, that have been started through Gross Incompetence and Hatred,” he wrote on Reality Social.
Trump beforehand promised he would finish the warfare “on day one” of his second presidential time period.
