Trump warns Putin he's ‘not done' with him and ‘trusts no one' after issuing ultimatum as Ukraine launches drone blitz
Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump said he still believes a
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Trump says his patience is wearing thin with Vladimir Putin
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Trump said he'll slap Russia with 'severe' tariffs if Putin doesn't strike a peace deal with Ukraine within 50 days
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Ukraine keeps getting blitzed with Russian drone attacks
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The remarks came just hours after he
'I'm disappointed in him, but I'm not done with him. But I'm disappointed in him,' Trump
'We're working it, Gary,' he said when pressed on how he plans to stop the bloodshed.
'We'll have a great conversation. I'll say: 'That's good, I think we're close to getting it done,' and then he'll knock down a building in Kyiv.'
Trump's frustration with Putin boiled over on Monday as he warned of "very severe" 100 per cent secondary tariffs on Russia if it refuses to reach a ceasefire deal within 10 days.
'We're going to be doing very severe tariffs if we don't have a deal in 50 days,' he said during a meeting with Nato chief Mark Rutte at the White House.
In one of his biggest threats yet, Trump has ordered the deployment of an arsenal of "top-of-the-line" weapons to Nato for immediate delivery to Ukraine.
The package includes long-range missiles capable of hitting Moscow, in what
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Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon,
a decorated
commander
, told The Sun: 'These weapons can strike Moscow – over 400 miles from the border.
'This will have both psychological as well as physical effects. People in Moscow will realise that they potentially could be targeted.'
It comes as Ukraine launched a large-scale drone blitz across southwestern Russia, damaging homes, commercial sites, and injuring civilians in the Voronezh and Lipetsk regions.
In Voronezh, 12 drones were intercepted, but falling debris injured several people and damaged apartments and suburban houses, regional Governor Alexander Gusev said.
'Unfortunately, there were injuries,' he confirmed on Telegram.
In Lipetsk, a drone crashed in an industrial area of Yelets, injuring one person, according to regional governor Igor Artamonov.
Russia's defence ministry claimed 55 drones were shot down overnight across five regions and the Black Sea, including three in Lipetsk.
The extent of the damage is still being assessed, and Ukraine has not commented on the strikes.
Both Kyiv and Moscow deny targeting civilians, but the war — now in its fourth year — has claimed thousands of civilian lives, most of them Ukrainian.
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