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Yahoo
04-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump Concedes He's Made No Progress On Achieving Top Campaign Promise
President Donald Trump said he was 'disappointed' from his call with Vladimir Putin on Thursday, adding that he failed to 'make any progress' on ending the war in Ukraine. Trump, who campaigned on ending the conflict within 24 hours of assuming office, conceded their discussion failed to yield any meaningful progress on a ceasefire. 'I'm very disappointed with the conversation I had today with President Putin, because I don't think he's there,' Trump said. 'I don't think he's looking to stop, and that's too bad.' Trump added that he plans to speak to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday morning, days after the U.S. confirmed it paused the shipments of some critical weapons to Kyiv, handing a win to Putin. Earlier, Trump said he was 'not happy' about the state of the war, conceding that he failed to move his Russian counterpart on the issue despite previously touting their relationship. 'I didn't make any progress with him today at all,' he added. President Trump on call with Putin: "I didn't make any progress with him today at all." — CSPAN (@cspan) July 3, 2025 Following the two leaders' call, Putin's foreign affairs aide told reporters that Moscow still plans to tackle the 'root causes' of the conflict, alluding to its demands for Ukraine to be neutral and give up on joining the NATO military alliance, among other things. 'Donald Trump again raised the question of the quick end to the military action,' Yuri Ushakov said, according to The New York Times. 'Vladimir Putin, for his part, answered that we are continuing to try to search for a politically negotiated solution to the conflict.' Meanwhile, the Pentagon on Wednesday confirmed the suspension of some weapons shipments to Ukraine, citing low stockpiles, as Russia escalated its attacks on its neighbor. Trump defended the move, saying the U.S. is still providing some support for Ukraine. 'We're giving weapons, but we've given so many weapons. But we are giving weapons and we're working with them and trying to help them,' Trump said. He then went on to blame his predecessor former President Joe Biden for sending out too many weapons abroad. 'We have to make sure that we have enough for ourselves,' he added. Zelenskyy said he plans to bring up the aid pause during his call with Trump as his country continues to be relentlessly attacked by Putin. Moscow early Friday launched its largest aerial assault on Kyiv since the start of the war, hitting Kyiv with drones and missiles, officials cited by The Associated Press said. Pentagon Confirms Pause On Ukraine Aid, Blames Biden For Sending Too Many Weapons U.S. Won't Send Some Weapons Pledged To Ukraine Following A Pentagon Review Trump's Reason For Not Ending Ukraine War In 24 Hours Brutally Mocked
Times of Oman
04-07-2025
- Politics
- Times of Oman
Trump says "didn't make any progress at all" with Putin during phone call
Washington, DC: US President Donald Trump on Thursday said that in his recent phone call with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, he had made "no progress at all" on efforts to end the conflict in Ukraine. Speaking to reporters on Thursday (US local time), Trump stated that over their phone call he and Putin discussed a lot of things, including Iran and the Russia-Ukraine conflict. "We had a call. It was a pretty long call. We talked about a lot of things including Iran and we also talked about, as you know, the war with Ukraine. I'm not happy about that," Trump said. Asked whether any progress was made on potential deal to end the conflict in Ukraine , Trump responded, "No. I didn't make any progress with him today at all." During their telephonic conversation, Putin made it clear that Russia will "not back down" on its goal of "eliminating" the root cause of the war in Ukraine, Al Jazeera reported. "Russia will not back down," Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters after Putin's call with Trump. However, he added that Putin expressed "readiness" to "seek a political and negotiated solution to the conflict. "Putin emphasised that Russia seeks to achieve its goals in Ukraine and remove the "root causes" of the conflict, Ushakov said. The "root cause" here refers to Ukraine's push to join NATO, following which Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 to prevent Kyiv from joining the US-centric alliance. The Trump-Putin phone call between two leaders came a day after the US paused promised weapon deliveries to Kyiv, including air defence missiles and precision-guided artillery, Al Jazeera reported. On June 27, Putin said Russia will no longer engage in "one-sided" games with the West, RT reported. He made these remarks while addressing a press conference on the sidelines of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) summit in Minsk. According to RT, Putin said that Western nations have repeatedly betrayed Russia by not honouring their promises regarding NATO expansion and resolving the Ukraine conflict. He emphasised that NATO is using alleged Russian "aggressiveness" to justify plans to increase defence spending to 5 per cent of member states' GDP and bolster military presence in Europe. "They [the West] are turning everything upside down," Putin said. "No one is saying a word about how we've come up to the Russian special military operation," he continued, asserting that the Ukraine conflict's origins date back decades, when Moscow was "blatantly lied to" about NATO's intentions. "What followed was one expansion wave after another," he added. Putin said Russia's repeated security concerns regarding NATO's activities were ignored by the West. He said, "Isn't it aggressive behaviour? That is precisely aggressive behaviour, which the West does not want to pay attention to." The Russian President also accused Western nations of supporting separatist and terrorist movements as long as they targeted Russia.
The Independent
04-07-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump says Putin call ended in ‘no progress at all' and defends weapon supply halt
US president Donald Trump has said his latest 'pretty long [phone] call' with Russian president Vladimir Putin trying to end the war in Ukraine resulted in 'no progress at all' as fighting continued with several overnight drone strikes. "I didn't make any progress with him at all," Mr Trump told reporters in brief comments at an air base outside Washington yesterday. The US president also issued his first comments on the US decision to halt some weapon shipments for Ukraine. He defended the move, blaming his predecessor Joe Biden for sending too many weapons. "We're giving weapons, but we've given so many weapons. But we are giving weapons. And we're working with them and trying to help them, but we haven't... You know, Biden emptied out our whole country giving them weapons, and we have to make sure that we have enough for ourselves," Mr Trump said. The US has blocked a number of planned shipments to Ukraine that included Patriot air defence missiles and precision-guided artillery, warning that its own domestic stockpiles were running low, but said that 'robust' options for Kyiv were still available.
Japan Times
04-07-2025
- Politics
- Japan Times
No progress at all, Trump says after phone call with Putin
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that a phone call earlier in the day with Vladimir Putin resulted in no progress at all on efforts to end the war in Ukraine, while a Kremlin aide said the Russian president reiterated that Moscow would keep pushing to solve the conflict's "root causes." The two leaders did not discuss a recent pause in some U.S. weapons shipments to Kyiv during the nearly hourlong conversation, according to a readout provided by Putin aide Yuri Ushakov. U.S. attempts to end Russia's war in Ukraine through diplomacy have largely stalled, and Trump has faced growing calls — including from some Republicans — to increase pressure on Putin to negotiate in earnest. Within hours of the call's conclusion, an apparent Russian drone attack sparked a fire in an apartment building in a northern suburb of Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said, indicating little change in the trajectory of the conflict. In Kyiv itself, witnesses reported explosions and sustained heavy machine-gun fire as air defense units battled drones over the capital, while Russian shelling killed five people in the eastern part of the country. "I didn't make any progress with him at all," Trump told reporters in brief comments at an air base outside Washington, before departing for a campaign-style event in Iowa. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, meanwhile, told reporters in Denmark earlier in the day that he hopes to speak to Trump as soon as Friday about the ongoing pause in some weapons shipments, which was first disclosed earlier this week. Trump, speaking to reporters as he left Washington for Iowa, said "we haven't" completely paused the weapons flow but blamed his predecessor, Joe Biden, for sending so many weapons that it risked weakening U.S. defenses. "We're giving weapons, but we've given so many weapons. But we are giving weapons. And we're working with them and trying to help them, but we haven't. You know, Biden emptied out our whole country giving them weapons, and we have to make sure that we have enough for ourselves," he said. The diplomatic back-and-forth comes as the U.S. has paused shipments of certain critical weapons to Ukraine due to low stockpiles, sources said earlier, just as Ukraine faces a Russian summer offensive and increasingly frequent attacks on civilian targets. Putin, for his part, has continued to assert he will stop his invasion only if the conflict's "root causes" have been addressed — Russian shorthand for the issue of NATO enlargement and Western support for Ukraine, including the rejection of any notion of Ukraine joining the NATO alliance. Russian leaders are also angling to establish greater control over political decisions made in Kyiv and other Eastern European capitals, NATO leaders have said. The pause in U.S. weapons shipments caught Ukraine off-guard and has generated widespread confusion about Trump's current views on the conflict, given his statement just last week that he would try to free up a Patriot missile defense system for use by Kyiv. Ukrainian leaders called in the acting U.S. envoy to Kyiv on Wednesday to underline the importance of military aid from Washington, and caution that the pause in U.S. weapons shipments would weaken Ukraine's ability to defend against intensifying Russian air strikes and battlefield advances. The Pentagon's move has meant a cut in deliveries of the Patriot defense missiles that Ukraine relies on to destroy fast-moving ballistic missiles, it was reported on Wednesday. Ushakov, the Kremlin aide, said that while Russia was open to continuing to speak with the U.S., any peace negotiations needed to occur between Moscow and Kyiv. That comment comes amid some indications that Moscow is trying to avoid a trilateral format for any potential peace negotiations. The Russians asked American diplomats to leave the room during such a meeting in Istanbul in early June, Ukrainian officials have said. Trump and Putin did not talk about a face-to-face meeting, Ushakov said.
Yahoo
03-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump to speak to Putin on Thursday
President Trump will speak Thursday morning with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he announced in a post on social media. Trump shared on Truth Social that the two leaders would speak at 10 a.m. It was not immediately clear what the focus of the call would be, but Trump and Putin have spoken multiple times in recent weeks amid the ongoing war in Ukraine. Thursday's call will take place amid uproar over the Pentagon's decision to halt the delivery of some air defense missiles and munitions to Ukraine, citing concerns about U.S. military stockpiles being depleted. The U.S. has given tens of billions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of its neighbor in February 2022. Trump campaigned on a pledge to end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours, a timeline he has since described as sarcastic. Still, he has struggled to make progress in bringing the fighting to an end, lashing out at various points at Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
