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Trump’s comments on Sunday revealed a disappointment in the White House with the Russian president, as negotiations on the resolution of the war in Ukraine continue without a clear breakthrough.
The new threat will hit imports from countries that acquire Russian oil, when Trump is preparing for the introduction of tariffs for goods from many largest trading partners in America on Wednesday. The president announced the moment of “Liberation Day”, but the plan caused shock in the markets and anxiety among enterprises and governments around the world.
Trump’s release in Moscow is a shift in the tone of the US president, who has blamed Volodimir Zelensky, the President of Ukraine for weeks, that he reluctantly concluded the deal.
The US president led Putin to attack Zelensky as the head of Kiev.
“When we are in the midst of the negotiations, you could say that I was very angry, angry … When Putin began to get into the authority of Zelenskyy,” said Trump NBC News. “Do you realize it’s not in the right place?”
While Ukraine has agreed with the US requirements for a full 30-day ceasefire, Russia has reached out and gave way to the truce on the goals of energy infrastructure and sea operations in the black sea, and only when the West first lifts sanctions on some agricultural goods.
Zelensky accused Russia of violating the energy ceasefire at least twice since it was agreed. “Russia needs to force peace – only the pressure will work,” he said this weekend.
Finnish President Alexander Stubb, who spent seven hours with Trump at his resort Mar-a-lago on Saturday, including golf, said the US president “ended patience” with Putin over the ceasefire.
“I think we are moving in the right direction,” Stubb said on a visit to London, where the British Prime Minister Keira Starr will be paid on Monday for discussion with Trump.
Stubbe said he offered to set the deadline on April 20, which means three months as Trump returned to the White House to take a 30-day unconditional truce on land, sea and in the air. Both Western and Eastern Christian churches will celebrate Easter on April 20 this year, rare calendar alignment.
“The Russians stop, they come up with new conditions,” Stubb said. “Let’s call Putin’s bluff he he is. Russia does not want peace at this stage. Therefore, we need to force peace in Russia.”
Earlier, Trump threatened Russia with new tariffs and sanctions if he resisted the agreement, but the expansion of the trade blast on buyers of Russian oil in other countries will add more pressure on Putin.
“If the deal is not done and if I think it was Russia’s fault, I’m going to put secondary sanctions on Russia,” Trump NBC said.
Trump did not suggest a clear explanation of what would include the plan. He said that “anyone who buys oil in Russia will not be able to sell their product, any product, not just oil, in the US,” but also stated that there would be a 25-point tariff on all oil.
The US president added that he struck the “secondary tariffs” in Iran if they could not make a deal on his nuclear program when he resumed Tehran’s “bombing” if they did not conclude an agreement.
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2025-03-30 16:42:00
