President Donald Trump said this Friday, July 5, “very unhappy” on Friday, “very unhappy” of his phone call the previous day with Vladimir Putin, who did not allow progress towards the end of the war in Ukraine, and added that he had mentioned with him the possibility of new sanctions.
“This is a very difficult situation. I told you that I was very unhappy with my conversation with President Putin. He wants to go to the end, just continuing to kill people, it is not good,” Donald Trump told The Press On Air Force.
The US president also suggested that he could be ready to harden the sanctions against Russia, after having avoided in the last six months to use it while trying to persuade his Russian counterpart to put an end to war.
“We are talking about many sanctions,” said the US president about his conversations with Vladimir Putin. “He understands what could happen.”
A “very strategic” call with Volodymyr Zelensky
Trump added that he had also had a “very strategic call” with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, while concerns grow in kyiv regarding US military aid deliveries.
Zelensky said that the two leaders agreed to work to “strengthen” the air defenses of Ukraine after the greatest attack of unmanned planes and missiles suffered by Ukraine since the beginning of Friday’s Russian invasion.
Donald Trump said he also discussed the sending of patriotic air defense systems in Ukraine during a separate call with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Friday, even if he had not yet decided to provide this key equipment. Friedrich Merz “believes they must be protected,” Trump said in reference to Ukraine.
Source: BFM TV
