Trump says “I'm not satisfied with Putin” after Ukraine was hit by Russian barrage – National
“I'm not satisfied with Putin,” U.S. President Donald Trump expressed profound misfortune on Sunday's Russian weekend bombing against Ukraine, saying to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“I don't know what's wrong with him. What's wrong with him? Right? He killed a lot of people. I'm not happy with it.” Trump told reporters at the airport in Morristown, New Jersey that he was going to return to Washington.
Trump responded to 367 Russian attacks on Sunday in Ukrainian cities, including Capital Kyiv, who killed at least 12 people and injured dozens of people in the biggest air strikes of the war to date.
Trump has been working to get both sides to agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine's three-year war, and he talked with Putin for more than two hours last week.
He raised the possibility of more sanctions imposed on Russia, which continues to attack.
“Always be with him, but he's sending the rockets into the city and killing people, and I don't like it at all,” Trump said.
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Washington's special envoy Keith Kellogg condemned Russia's attack on X, calling it a “obvious violation” of the Geneva agreement. “These attacks are shameful. Stop the killing. Now there is a ceasefire.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian missiles and drones hit more than 30 cities and villages and urged Western partners to strengthen sanctions on Russia, a long-term demand for Ukrainian leaders, but despite the warnings from the United States and Europe to Moscow, it has not lowered Russia in the United States and Europe's way of decreasing Russia.
Zelenskyy wrote on X: “These are intentional blows to ordinary cities, adding that Sunday's targets include Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, Ternopil, Ternopil, Chernihiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Odesa, Poltava, Poltava, dnipro, Dnipro, Mykolaiv, Mykolaiv, Kharkarkiv, Kharkakiv, Kharkaskiv and Cherkasy Coreions.
Putin said: “The silence of the United States, the silence of others in the world, is just encouragement,” Putin said. “This cruelty cannot be stopped without the real huge pressure on the Russian leader. The sanctions will certainly help.”
Moscow has no immediate comments on the strike.
Meanwhile, Russia's Ministry of Defense said its air defense measures shot down 110 Ukrainian drones overnight.
During talks in Istanbul earlier this month – the first face-to-face peace talks between the two sides – Kief and Moscow agreed to exchange 1,000 prisoners of war and civilian detainees. Communication is the only tangible result in negotiations.
The swap was completed this weekend in three phases of Russia's strike against Ukraine.
– Other documents with the Associated Press
