Russia has tried Donald Trump’s threat to impose new and “very serious” rates, to eliminate if Vladimir Putin is not in accordance with peace with Ukraine.
The Kremlin reacted diligently on Monday to the US President warned that Moscow had 50 days to agree with a cease -the fire and called it a “theatrical ultimatum”.
Mr. Trump, in addition to the NATO -Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office, also announced new weapons for Ukraine and endangered “corrosive” secondary rates of 100 percent at the buyers of Russian exports.
The US President doubled on Tuesday in an interview with the BBC and said that he was “very disappointed” with Mr Putin and frustrated that “Talk” had not led to an end to the three -year conflict.
“The US president’s statements are very serious. Some of them are personally addressed to President Putin,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
“We certainly need time to analyze what was said in Washington.”
Mr. Peskov further claimed that decisions taken in Washington and other NATO captures “were seen by the Ukrainian side, not as a signal for peace, but as a signal to continue the war”.
Two other senior Russian officials did not stop.
Former President Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, said that Moscow did not care about the “theatrical Ultimatum” of Mr. Trump, while a senior Russian diplomat, Sergei Ryabkov, suggested that the giving of Ultimatums was unacceptable.
Mr. Trump, who said he wants to be seen as a “peacemaker” President, said he wanted to see the end of the war – of which he said the United States had spent $ 350 billion ($ 532 billion).
Mr Putin, who spoke with Mr Trump at least six times this year, still has to comment publicly on Mr Trump’s comments.
Trump ‘disappointed’ with Putin
During the interview with the BBC, Mr. Trump specifically expressed frustration that Mr Putin’s “speech” about peace was often followed by Russian strikes in large Ukrainian cities, and indicated that Washington wanted to end Moscow to end the war by sending more weapons to Ukraine.
“I don’t want to say that he is a murderer, but he is a tough guy,” Mr Trump said about Mr Putin, a reference to former US President Joe Biden who calls the Russian leader “a murderer” in an interview in 2021.
The Financial Times reported that Mr. Trump Ukraine had encouraged to enter strikes deep into Russian territory, and even the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy asked if he could hit Moscow if the US offered long distance weapons.
“I am disappointed, but I am not done with him,” Mr Trump said in an interview with the BBC, with regard to Mr Putin and the peace agreement with Ukraine that he thought it was on the cards.
“I thought we had a deal four times and then you go home and see that he just attacked a nursing home or something in Kiev.“
When asked by the BBC if he trusted the Russian president, Mr. Trump answered and said, “I hardly trust anyone to be honest with you.”
Vladimir Putin did not respond to Donald Trump’s comments. ((AP: Sergei Bobylev))
Putin ordered Russian troops in Ukraine in February 2022 after eight years of fighting in eastern Ukraine between Russian -supported separatists and Ukrainian troops.
The US says that 1.2 million people were injured or killed in the war.
Secondary sanctions
Mr Putin has repeatedly said that he is ready to make peace – but on his conditions – and that it makes no sense to discuss a ceasefire – until the details of what a peace would look like.
In Washington, an official of the White House said that Mr. Trump’s intention was to “impose 100 percent rates on Russia” and secondary sanctions against other countries buying oil from Russia as a peace agreement was not concluded in 50 days.
“We can do secondary,” said Mr. Trump. “We are probably talking about 100 percent or something like that. We can do secondary rates without the Senate, without the house, but what they make can also be very good.”
Five -like of the 100 US senators sponsor a bill that would give Mr Trump the authority to impose 500 percent rates on every country that helps Russia.
China, India and Turkey are the largest buyers of crude oil from Russia, the world’s second largest oil exporter.
Reuters
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