DONALD Trump has warned Vladimir Putin he’s “disappointed but not done” with the Russian tyrant, saying he “trusts almost no-one.”
Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump said he still believes a peace deal with Russia is possible, but made clear his patience is wearing thin.
Trump says his patience is wearing thin with Vladimir Putin[/caption]
Trump said he’ll slap Russia with ‘severe’ tariffs if Putin doesn’t strike a peace deal with Ukraine within 50 days[/caption]
Ukraine keeps getting blitzed with Russian drone attacks[/caption]
The remarks came just hours after he issued a 50-day ultimatum to Putin to end his assault on Ukraine or face sweeping tariffs and US-supplied long-range missiles that could reach Russian soil.
“I’m disappointed in him, but I’m not done with him. But I’m disappointed in him,” Trump told the BBC on Monday in a 20-minute phone interview.
“We’re working it, Gary,” he said when pressed on how he plans to stop the bloodshed.
“We’ll have a great conversation. I’ll say: ‘That’s good, I think we’re close to getting it done,’ and then he’ll knock down a building in Kyiv.”
It comes as Ukraine launched a large-scale drone blitz across southwestern Russia, damaging homes, commercial sites, and injuring civilians in the Voronezh and Lipetsk regions.
In Voronezh, 12 drones were intercepted, but falling debris injured several people and damaged apartments and suburban houses, regional Governor Alexander Gusev said.
“Unfortunately, there were injuries,” he confirmed on Telegram.
In Lipetsk, a drone crashed in an industrial area of Yelets, injuring one person, according to regional governor Igor Artamonov.
Russia’s defence ministry claimed 55 drones were shot down overnight across five regions and the Black Sea, including three in Lipetsk.
The extent of the damage is still being assessed, and Ukraine has not commented on the strikes.
Both Kyiv and Moscow deny targeting civilians, but the war — now in its fourth year — has claimed thousands of civilian lives, most of them Ukrainian.
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President Trump met with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House, on Monday[/caption]
