President Donald Trump tore into Russian President Vladimir Putin when asked Sunday evening by a reporter for an update on the Ukraine war.
‘Yeah, I’ll give you an update. I’m not happy with what Putin’s doing,’ Trump said at Morristown Airport as he departed his Bedminster golf club to head back to Washington.
‘He’s killing a lot of people and I don’t know 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, OK?
‘We’re in the middle of talking and he’s shooting rockets into Kyiv and other cities. I don’t like it at all.’
Trump said he was ‘absolutely’ now considering more sanctions on Russia due to Putin’s behavior.
The U.S. president had spoken on the phone for two hours with Putin on Monday – but those conversations did not lead to a ceasefire.
Instead, Russia continued to attack Ukraine through the weekend, with Trump largely silent on the war while he spent parts of Saturday and Sunday at his New Jersey golf club.
Saturday morning he visited the United States Military Academy at West Point to deliver a commencement address.
President Donald Trump tore into Russian President Vladimir Putin when asked Sunday evening by a reporter for an update on the Ukraine war
President Donald Trump appeared irritated by the actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who continued bombing Ukraine amid ongoing peace talks
The president was asked about a claim made by a Russian commander that Putin’s helicopter almost got caught in the middle of a Ukrainian drone attack.
‘I haven’t heard that,’ Trump replied, speculating that ‘maybe that would be a reason.’
‘I don’t know, but I have not heard that,’ the president added.
Overnight Russia unleashed one of its largest drone and missile attacks on Ukraine, the second large-scale attack in two nights, and a third in just a week.
Ukraine’s air force said Sunday that Russia had launched 69 ballistic and cruise missiles, along with 298 attack drones, with about two-thirds of the missiles and drones shot down.
At least 12 were reported dead and 57 injured in what has been described as the largest aerial attack of the war so far.
Among the dead were at least three children in the northern region of Zhytomyr, local officials said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had called on the United States and Trump to condemn the attack.
Trump said he was ‘absolutely’ now considering more sanctions on Russia due to Putin’s behavior
The U.S. president had spoken on the phone for two hours with Putin on Monday – but those conversations did not lead to a ceasefire
President Donald Trump spoke to reporters on the tarmac Sunday evening at the Morristown, New Jersey airport as he departed his Bedminster golf club for Washington, D.C.
‘The silence of America, the silence of others in the world only encourages Putin,’ he wrote on Telegram.
‘Every such terrorist Russian strike is reason enough for new sanctions against Russia.’
Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said: ‘This was a combined, ruthless strike aimed at civilians. The enemy once again showed that its goal is fear and death.’
U.S. Special Envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg said on Sunday the attack was ‘a clear violation’ of the 1977 Geneva Peace Protocols and called for an immediate ceasefire.
