Trump, Ukraine and Putin
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President Trump reveals how Russian leader 'talks nice, then bombs everybody' as the U.S. prepares to send Ukraine Patriot missiles under a NATO agreement.
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Daily Star on MSNDonald Trump ally warns what'll happen if Putin snubs 50-day deadline sparking WW3 fearsDonald Trump has been growing increasingly angry with Putin ignoring his strict 50-day peace deal – with a senator warning what might come next for Russia if he doesn't step in line
That included a Monday joint statement from Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham and Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal calling Trump’s threat of ramped-up economic penalties if Russia doesn’t cut a peace deal in next 50 days “a real executive hammer to drive the parties to the negotiating table.”
Donald Trump spoke to reporters on the White House South Lawn after imposing a 50-day ultimatum on Vladimir Putin - and explained what would happen if it is not met
President Trump discussed how he came to give up on negotiating with Vladimir Putin, during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the White House on Monday, as the U.S. agrees to sell new and more weapons to Europe and Ukraine.
U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly said during his campaign he would be able to end the war between Russia and Ukraine “in 24 hours” upon taking office.
“Putin will not negotiate as a loser,” one of his longtime associates tells TIME by phone from Moscow. “He knows that winners don’t get punished, and if he wins, all of this” — the sanctions, the tariffs — “will go away.”