Trump said he was “very, very unhappy” with Vladimir Putin, underlining his insistence that his patience had finally snapped with the Russian leader’s refusal to end his three-year-old invasion of Ukraine.
The Republican added that they would be “secondary tariffs” that target Russia’s remaining trade partners -- seeking to cripple Moscow’s ability to survive already sweeping Western sanctions.
“This is really big,“ said Rutte, as he touted a deal aimed at easing Trump’s long-held complaints that the US is paying more than European and NATO allies to aid Ukraine.
“If I was Vladimir Putin today and heard you speaking... I would reconsider that I should take negotiations about Ukraine more seriously,“ said Rutte.
- ‘Very long time’ -
But EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Trump’s sanctions deadline was too far into the future. “Fifty days is a very long time if we see that they are killing innocent civilians every day,“ she said.
His pivot towards Putin sparked fears in Kyiv that he was about to sell out Ukraine, especially after Trump and his team berated Zelensky in the Oval Office on February 28.
Washington has also U-turned from an announcement earlier this month that it would pause some arms deliveries to Kyiv.
“I go home, I tell the First Lady, ‘you know, I spoke to Vladimir today, we had a wonderful conversation.’,“ Trump said. “And she said, ‘Oh really? Another city was just hit.’”
- ‘Better late than never’ -
“The ultimate hammer to bring about the end of this war will be tariffs against countries, like China, India and Brazil, that prop up Putin’s war machine,“ they said in a statement.
One Ukrainian soldier deployed in the war-scarred east of the country, who identified himself by his call sign Grizzly, welcomed Trump’s promise of fresh air defense systems.
Russian forces meanwhile said on Monday they had captured new territory in eastern Ukraine with the seizure of one village in the Donetsk region and another in the Zaporizhzhia region.
In Kyiv, Zelensky also proposed a major political shake-up, recommending economy minister Yulia Svyrydenko take over new prime minister, and appointing current premier Prime Minister Denys Shmygal as defense minister. - AFP
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