US President Donald Trump Sunday, expressed a deep misfortune during the bombing of the weekend of Russia of UkraineSaying of the Russian president Vladimir Putin: “I am not satisfied with Putin.”
“I don’t know what’s wrong with him. What happened to him? No? He kills a lot of people. I’m not happy with that,” Trump told journalists at Morristown airport in New Jersey when he was preparing to return to Washington.
Trump spoke in reaction to A Russian dam of 367 drones and missiles in Ukrainian cities during the night Sunday, including the capital kyiv, in the largest air attack in the war so far, killing at least 12 people and injuring tens more.
Trump tried to bring the two parties to accept a ceasefire in the three-year war in Ukraine and he spoke for more than two hours with Putin last week.
He raised the possibility of imposing more sanctions on Russia in response to the ongoing attacks.
“Always from him, but he sends rockets to cities and kills people, and I don’t like it at all,” said Trump.
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Keith Kellogg, a special envoy of Washington in Ukraine, condemned the Russian attacks against X, calling the “a clear violation” of the Geneva protocols. “These attacks are shameful. Stop the murder. Ceal now.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russian missiles and drones have struck more than 30 cities and villages, and urged Western partners to accelerate sanctions against Russia – a long -standing demand from the Ukrainian leader but who despite warnings in Moscow by the United States and Europe has not materialized in the way of dissuading Russia.
“These were deliberate strikes on ordinary cities,” wrote Zelenskyy on X, adding that Sunday targets included Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, Ternopil, Chernihiv, Sumy, Odesa, Poltava, Dnipro, Mykolav, Kharkiv and Cheerkasy.
“The silence of America, the silence of others in the world, only encourages” Putin, “he said. “Without a really strong pressure on Russian management, this brutality cannot be stopped. The sanctions will certainly help. “
There was no immediate comment from Moscow on the strikes.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said its air defenses had shot 110 Ukrainian drones overnight.
In the talks held in Istanbul earlier this month – the first time the two parties met face to face for peace talks – kyiv and Moscow agreed to exchange 1,000 prisoners of war and civilian detainees. The exchange was the only tangible result of talks.
The exchange was completed in three stages this weekend in the middle of the Russian strikes on Ukraine.
– with additional files from the Associated Press