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President Donald Trump said connected Monday (July 14, 2025) helium would punish Russia with tariffs if determination isn't a woody to extremity the warfare successful Ukraine wrong 50 days, the latest illustration of his increasing vexation with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Mr. Trump made the announcement during an Oval Office gathering with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.
“We’re going to beryllium doing precise terrible tariffs if we don’t person a woody successful 50 days," the Republican President said. He said they would beryllium “secondary tariffs,” meaning they would people Russia's trading partners successful an effort to isolate Moscow successful the planetary economy.
“I usage commercialized for a batch of things,” Mr. Trump added. “But it’s large for settling wars.”
Besides the tariff threat, Mr. Trump and Mr. Rutte discussed a rejuvenated pipeline for U.S. weapons. European allies program to bargain subject instrumentality and past transportation them to Ukraine. Mr. Trump said determination would beryllium “billions and billions” of dollars purchased.
Mr. Rutte said Germany, Finland, Canada, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Denmark would beryllium among the buyers to proviso Ukraine. He said “speed is of the essence here,” and helium said the shipments should marque Mr. Putin “reconsider” bid negotiations.
Mr. Trump has agelong boasted of his affable narration with Mr. Putin, and aft taking bureau successful January repeatedly said that Russia was much consenting than Ukraine to scope a bid deal. At the aforesaid time, Mr. Trump accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of prolonging the warfare and called him a “dictator without elections.”
But Russia’s relentless onslaught against civilian areas of Ukraine wore down Mr. Trump’s patience. In April, Mr. Trump urged Mr. Putin to “STOP!” launching deadly barrages connected Kyiv, and the pursuing period said successful a societal media station that the Russian person “has gone perfectly CRAZY!” arsenic the bombardments continued.
“It conscionable keeps going connected and connected and on," Mr. Trump said connected Monday. "Every night, radical are dying.”
Meanwhile, Mr. Trump’s peculiar envoy to Ukraine and Russia, retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, met with Mr. Zelensky successful Kyiv connected Monday.
Mr. Zelensky said helium had “a productive conversation” with Mr. Kellogg astir strengthening Ukrainian aerial defences, associated arms accumulation and purchasing U.S. weapons successful conjunction with European countries, arsenic good arsenic the anticipation of tighter planetary sanctions connected the Kremlin.
“We anticipation for the enactment of the United States, due to the fact that it is wide that Moscow volition not halt unless its ... ambitions are stopped by force,” Mr. Zelensky said connected Telegram.
Russia has pounded Ukrainian cities, including the capital, Kyiv, with hundreds of drones and cruise and ballistic missiles that Ukraine’s aerial defences are struggling to counter. June brought the highest monthly civilian casualties of the past 3 years, with 232 radical killed and 1,343 wounded, the U.N. quality rights ngo successful Ukraine said. Russia launched 10 times much drones and missiles successful June than successful the aforesaid period past year, it said.
At the aforesaid time, Russia’s bigger Army is making a caller effort to thrust backmost Ukrainian defenders connected parts of the 1,000-kilometre (620-mile) beforehand line.
U.S. to nonstop Patriot aerial defence missiles for Ukraine
Mr. Trump confirmed the U.S. is sending Ukraine much severely needed Patriot aerial defence missiles and that the European Union volition wage the U.S. for the “various pieces of precise sophisticated” weaponry.
While the EU is not allowed nether its treaties to bargain weapons, idiosyncratic EU subordinate countries tin and are, conscionable arsenic NATO subordinate countries are buying and sending weapons.
Germany has offered to concern 2 Patriot systems, authorities spokesperson Stefan Kornelius said Monday successful Berlin. As acold arsenic different European countries financing much systems is concerned, that would person to beryllium seen successful talks, helium said.
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius was travelling to Washington connected Monday to conscionable with Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Germany has already fixed 3 of its ain Patriot systems to Ukraine, and Pistorius was quoted arsenic saying successful an interrogation with the Financial Times that it present has lone six.
A apical state of Mr. Trump, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, said Sunday that the struggle is nearing an inflection constituent arsenic Mr. Trump shows increasing involvement successful helping Ukraine combat backmost against Russia's full-scale invasion. It’s a origin that Trump had antecedently dismissed arsenic being a discarded of U.S. payer money.
“In the coming days, you’ll spot weapons flowing astatine a grounds level to assistance Ukraine support themselves,” Mr. Graham said connected CBS’ “Face the Nation.” He added: “One of the biggest miscalculations Putin has made is to play Trump. And you conscionable watch, successful the coming days and weeks, there’s going to beryllium a monolithic effort to get Putin to the table.”
Kirill Dmitriev, Mr. Putin’s envoy for planetary concern who took portion successful talks with U.S. officials successful Saudi Arabia successful February, dismissed what helium said were efforts to thrust a wedge betwixt Moscow and Washington.
“Constructive dialog betwixt Russia and the United States is much effectual than doomed-to-fail attempts astatine pressure,” Mr. Dmitriev said successful a station connected Telegram. “This dialog volition continue, contempt titanic efforts to disrupt it by each imaginable means.”
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