President Trump posted on social media Thursday morning to specific he is “not completely satisfied” with the Russian strikes on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, calling the strikes “very dangerous timing” amid peace negotiations and telling Russian President Vladimir Putin to “STOP!”
In a single day, Russia attacked Kyiv with an hourslong barrage of missiles and drones, killing not less than eight folks and injuring over 70 in probably the deadliest assault on Ukraine’s capital since July. The strikes got here as peace talks have appeared to stall.
“I’m not pleased with the Russian strikes on KYIV. Not needed, and really dangerous timing,” Mr. Trump wrote on his social media web site Reality Social. “Vladimir, STOP! 5000 troopers per week are dying. Lets get the Peace Deal DONE!”
Mr. Trump has insisted he believes Russia needs peace, regardless of Moscow’s continued assaults on Ukraine, greater than three years into Russia’s battle.
Though Mr. Trump stated he would cease the battle earlier than taking workplace, his administration has up to now been unable to dealer a peace deal. And Mr. Trump has expressed his rising impatience with each Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Putin.
Mr. Trump blasted Zelenskyy on Wednesday, accusing him of prolonging the “killing subject” by refusing to think about surrendering Russian-occupied Crimea as a part of a potential peace deal.
“His persistence is sporting very skinny,” White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt instructed reporters Wednesday.
Vice President JD Vance told reporters on Wednesday that the U.S. has “issued a really express proposal to each the Russians and the Ukrainians, and it is time for them to both say sure, or for the USA to stroll away from this course of.”
“I’ve my very own deadline,” Mr. Trump stated Thursday on a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. He would not say when that deadline is.
Requested if he nonetheless believes Russia is severe about peace after it assaulted Kyiv with missiles and Ukraine in a single day, the president stated “we’re considering that very strongly that they each need peace, however they must get to the desk.”
Mr. Trump disagreed with the notion that he is not placing sufficient stress on Russia.
“You do not know what stress I am placing on Russia,” he stated.
On what concessions Russia is making, Mr. Trump responded, “Stopping the battle, stopping taking the entire nation — fairly massive concession.”
In response to Mr. Trump’s criticism of him over Crimea, Zelenskyy posted a 2018 assertion from Mr. Trump’s then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during which Pompeo stated it was U.S. coverage to not acknowledge Russia’s tried annexation of Crimea.
