US President Donald Trump said on Sunday he was “very angry, angry” with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, NBC reported, marking the rapid change of tone to end the war in Ukraine in Washington.
NBC’s Christon Velkar said that Trump had called him to express his anger over Putin, with a leader as a leader, the future of Ukrainian President Volodimier Zelansky was questioned – something that Trump himself did.
Velkar on Sunday quoted directly from a telephone conversation with the President on his NBC show “Meat the Press”.
“If Russia and I am unable to make a deal on stopping bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia’s fault … I am going to put secondary tariffs on all oils coming out of Russia,” said Trump.
Trump told Velkar that he was “very angry” on Putin’s recent comments about Putin’s recent comments about Zelanceci’s credibility and new leadership in Ukraine.
The US has been focusing for a rapid end of war for over three years since assuming the presidency, but their administration has failed to reach a success despite negotiations with both sides.
Putin dismissed a joint US-Ukrainian scheme for the 30-day ceasefire, and on Friday suggested that Zelansky be removed from the office as part of the peace process.
Trump told NBC that Putin knew that he is angry, but he said that he “has a very good relationship with him” and “anger spreads quickly … if he does the right thing.”
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His threats to support the warming relationship between Washington and Moscow since Trump’s return to Trump’s office has stopped Russia on the battlefield as it chases the attack of its attack.
Ukraine has accused Russia of taking out the conversation with the intention of stopping its aggressive, which is with fresh attacks on the northeast border city of Kharkiv.
According to Ukrainian officials, six strikes were being treated at a military hospital on Saturday on Saturday and killing at least two people in a residential building.
Moscow said on Sunday that Russian forces captured a village just seven kilometers (four mi) from the border of Ukraine’s Central Dnipropetrovsk region.
Kremlin’s soldiers have not crossed the border of the region as they started aggressive in 2022, but they have been grinding it for months in the hope of a success.
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Putin, in power for 25 years and repeatedly in without any competition votes, often questioned Zelanski as the “legitimacy” President of the Ukrainian leader in May 2024 after the first five-year mandate of the Ukrainian leader.
Under the Ukrainian law, elections are suspended at the time of major military conflicts, and Zelansky’s domestic opponents have stated that no ballot should be held until after the conflict.
Trump himself had a rocky relationship with Zelansky, called him a “dictator” and struggled with him while living on camera in the White House last month.
Zelancesi on Saturday demanded a rally against Putin’s colleagues against Putin.
“Now for a very long time, the US proposal for an unconditional ceasefire has been at the table without sufficient response from Russia,” Zelancesi said.
“Already a ceasefire can occur if there was a real pressure on Russia,” he said, thanking the countries that have increased the pressure of restrictions on the “who understand it” and the restrictions on the Kremlin.
Both Moscow and Kiev agreed to the concept of a Black Sea Trus after negotiating with American officials earlier this week, but Russia said the deal would not be applicable until Ukraine’s colleagues lifted some restrictions.
Describing the threat of secondary tariff, Trump told NBC that it would make it so that “if you buy oil from Russia, you cannot trade in the United States.”
He said, “25 percent tariff on all oils, 25 to 50 point tariffs on all oils,” he said, without details.
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