The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has again lashed out on Tuesday, against the Russian leader, who has accused of “playing with fire” by launching this weekend the worst aerial bombing against kyiv and other places in Ukraine since the beginning of the war, three years and three months ago.
In a comment in Trump, which is normally expressed in praise and comprehensive terms towards his Russian counterpart, he warned: “What Vladimir Putin does not understand is that, if it were not for me, very bad things would have happened to Russia, and I mean really bad.” “He is playing with fire!” Has written the US president in his very short message.
The Republican apostille arrives less than two days after he declared, in comments to the press and in messages in Truth, that the Russian president “has gone crazy” and does not know “what happened to her” to order some attacks with missiles and drones that were charged at least 13 lives and left dozens of injured, when in recent weeks they had developed to try to reach a peace agreement.
Although the intensity of the attacks has referred relatively since the weekend, the governor of the Ukrainian region of Sumi, Oleh Hrihorov, confirmed on Tuesday that the Russian forces have captured four villages in the province, which borders the Russian of Kursk, partly occupied by the Ukraine troops last summer. “The enemy continues his attempts to move forward with the objective of establishing a land of anyone,” said Hrihorov.
Throughout the last days, the US President has intensified his statements against Putin and his actions, although he has not mentioned in public the threat of imposing new sanctions against Russia.
Three weeks ago, Trump said he would impose if Putin did not allow progress in peace negotiations. Then, the Russian president proposed to hold conversations at the highest level with the Ukrainians in Istanbul. But at the last moment he declined to go to that event that he had summoned and the dialogue ended up celebrating between intermediate level delegations. Although the two parties agreed to exchange a thousand prisoners – the exchange was completed on Sunday – and continue the contacts, no dates or place have been confirmed for it.
Trump, who then assured that he could only make advances through a direct conversation between Putin and he, spoke telephone with his counterpart on Monday last week. That expected talk also did not yield progress. Instead, the American chose to wash their hands and announced that thereafter the negotiations will remain in the hands of Moscow and kyiv.
Since then, the Republican has not just mentioned the possibility of sanctions, although the European allies will continue with them. He has only done it when, in his criticisms of Sunday about Putin while returning to the White House after a golf weekend, a journalist asked him if he considered imposing them. “Absolutely,” he replied.
But in his messages in Truth about Russia, the US president has not alluded to that possibility. Last week, his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, indicated at an audience in the Senate that Trump did not contemplate at the moment imposing punishments on Moscow. The goal, he said, is to get Putin, who does not want to sit down to negotiate because he thinks that time plays in his favor, agrees to do it seriously. “President Trump believes that if you start threatening [sanciones]the Russians will stop talking. And it is worth that we can talk to them and convince them to sit at the table, ”said Rubio.
