Trump said he’s angry with Putin as he’s delaying the agreement with Ukraine.
Reacting to US President Donald Trump’s caustic remark about Vladimir Putin that he was “pissed off” at Putin for delaying agreement with Ukraine to end the ongoing war, Moskovsky Komsomolets, a leading pro-Kremlin paper, accused Trump of not fulfilling “obligations” to stop Ukrainian strikes on Russian energy infrastructure.
“All agreements on the level of President Trump are only worth a few pennies on market day. Moscow is prepared to make a deal with the US president, as ‘the leader of the free world’, and the undisputed boss of Nato and ‘the lord and master of Kyiv’. But right now the leader is not leading, the boss is not bossing and the lord is not directing his vassal,” the paper stated. “The Trump administration is demonstrating a strange passivity, a strange inconsistency and a strange inability to fulfil the obligations it took upon itself,” the report said adding that Moscow has another way of ending the Ukraine crisis in a manner that suits Russia.
“If the diplomats cannot move the peace process forward, the military will do all the talking. Putin has made his move, now we wait for Trump’s,” the paper said.
Trump criticizes both Putin, Zelenskyy
Trump criticized Putin for questioning the credibility of Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a negotiating partner, saying he was “very angry, pissed off” with the Kremlin chief. “I was disappointed in a certain way,” Trump said. “Some of the things that he said over the last day or two having to do with Zelenskyy because when he considers Zelenskyy not credible. He’s supposed to be making a deal with him, whether you like him or you don’t like him. So I wasn’t happy with that, but I think he’s going to be good and I certainly wouldn’t want to put secondary tariffs on Russia,” Trump said.
Then Tump targeted Zelenskyy and warned that Ukraine would have “big, big problems” if he got old feet over a deal to sign over mineral rights to the United States. “I see he’s trying to back out of the rare earth deal. And if he does that he’s got some problems. Big, big problems.
“We made a deal on rare earth and now he’s saying, well, you know, I want to renegotiate the deal. He wants to be a member of NATO. Well, he was never going to be a member of NATO. He understands that. So if he’s looking to renegotiate the deal, he’s got big problems.”
Kremlin remain open to speaking to Trump
The Kremlin Monday said Putin was still “open” to speaking to Donald Trump even after his jibe. Putin earlier this month rejected a US proposal of an unconditional ceasefire in Ukraine — that Zelenskyy backed — and has upped his rhetoric on Moscow wanting to install new leadership in Ukraine.
