The US president, Donald Trump, threatened this Saturday with new sanctions to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, because “Too many people are dying” In Ukraine and the situation makes him think that perhaps his counterpart “does not want to stop war.”
“Putin had no reason to shoot missiles against civil areas, cities and towns in recent days. It makes me think that maybe he doesn’t want to stop war (…) And it has to be treated differently, through the ‘bank’ or ‘secondary sanctions’? Too many people are dying !!!
His message was disseminated when the Republican leader was already on his way to Washington.
Trump and the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, met before the funeral in the Basilica of San Pedro, where the coffin was before the homily, and held a meeting of about 15 minutes that the communications director of the White House, Steven Cheung, described as “a very productive conversation.”
Prior to this meeting, which left a striking image of both inclined leaders on two chairs without a table in one of the ceremonial salons of the basilica, both also briefly met with the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the British prime minister, Keir Starmer.
In a long message on its platform, Trump reiterated his complaint Against Democratic Presidents Barack Obama (2009-2017) and Joe Biden (2021-2025) for not having prevented The current conflict between the two countries.
“This is Joe Biden’s war, the sleepy, not mine. It was a loser from the first day. This should never have happened and I would not have done so if I had been president at that time. I just tried to fix the disaster that Obama and Biden left me, and go disaster!” He added.
The American president also lashed out at the media. “It doesn’t matter what agreement regarding Russia/Ukraine, no matter how good it iseven if it is the best agreement ever made, the bankrupt The New York Times will speak badly of him, “he said.
Specifically, he criticized the head correspondent of that newspaper in the White House, Peter Baker, who said that “he followed the requests of his editor and wrote that Ukraine should recover territory, including, I suppose, Crimea, and other ridiculous requests to stop the killing”, and reproached him that he only take it against him, who said he had nothing to do with this war “Except at the beginning”when he sent Javelin to Ukraine.
