Latest news with #Russia
Daily Mail
31 minutes ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
BREAKING NEWS Trump threatens Putin with a 50-day ultimatum on Ukraine peace deal or face 100% tariffs
President Donald Trump says the U.S. will slap 100 percent tariffs on Russia if Vladimir Putin doesn't agree to a peace deal with Ukraine within 50 days. The president tore into Putin while meeting with NATO Secretary Mark Rutte in the Oval Office as his anger at the Russian dictator boiled over amid its escalating attacks on Ukraine. Trump said he'll be imposing secondary tariffs on Russia in 50 days if a deal to end the war isn't reached. 'We'll be doing tariffs in 50 days [on Russia] and we'll be doing tariffs - secondary tariffs - at 100 percent,' he said in the Oval Office on Monday. 'I'm disappointed in President Putin. I thought we would've had a deal two months ago,' he went on about the proposed peace deal. Trump will also send sophisticated weaponry, including Patriot missiles, to Ukraine – in his latest pivot in the brutal conflict. 'We've made a deal today where we are going to be sending [Ukraine] weapons and they're going to be paying for them,' he stated. 'We - the United States - will not be having any payment made. We're not buying it, but we will manufacture it, and they're going to be paying for it.' Trump on Sunday night directed yet another sharp comment toward Russian President Vladimir Putin, as Russia continues to bombard its neighbor with missile and drone attacks. He confirmed that the U.S. will send Patriot missile defense systems that Ukraine says is vital to its defense, after his Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth instituted a pause that caused a sudden clash within his administration. There are also reports he will send offensive weaponry, after many of his allies have criticized the way way the Biden administration pushed weapons out the door following Russia's 2022 invasion. One tool potentially at his disposal is $3.85 billion in leftover drawdown authority from the prior administration. Trump has only hinted at aspects of the deal, which he has described has having European allies foot the bill for U.S. weaponry. 'We will send them Patriots, which they desperately need, because [Russian President Vladimir] Putin really surprised a lot of people. He talks nice and then bombs everybody in the evening,' Trump said in his latest barb at Putin. 'We basically are going to send them various pieces of very sophisticated military equipment. They are going to pay us 100 percent for that, and that's the way we want it,' Trump said. He also teased a 'major statement' on NATO, on a day he is set to meet at the White House with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte. The talks are set to include Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is back from Malaysia after commenting on the hunt for an imposter who has been using AI to impersonate him, and Hegseth, who has been under fire for his handling of Ukraine after reportedly failing to brief the president on major policy moves. Describing the plan, Trump said: 'We basically are going to send them various pieces of very sophisticated military equipment. They are going to pay us 100 percent for that, and that's the way we want it.' Trump gave the latest hint in his stunning U-turn last week, when he said that the U.S. will 'have to' once again send powerful weapons to Ukraine, despite his administration pausing critical arms shipments the week before. Hegseth was sitting Trump at the time during his cabinet meeting. 'I don't know, why don't you tell me?' Trump replied when asked who ordered the weapons halt. Trump and his top aides have made skeptical comments about the effort to arm Ukraine, which dramatically turned back the thrust of Russia's initial invasion but has been stuck in a war of attrition on its own territory. A push into Russia's Kursk region eventually got repelled by Russian forces backed up by soldiers sent by North Korea. Before Trump selected him as his running mate, JD Vance said: 'I do not think that it is in America's interest to continue to fund an effectively never-ending war in Ukraine,' saying back in 2022: 'I gotta be honest with you, I don't really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another.'
Telegraph
36 minutes ago
- Politics
- Telegraph
Battle Lines: ‘Prepare for war with Russia by 2030'
General Sir Patrick Sanders has a stark warning: Britain must prepare for war with Russia within five years and start building bunkers and better air defences. Speaking exclusively to our Defence Editor Danielle Sheridan, the former head of the British army points to the Nordic countries and says we need to start taking a leaf out of their book. He also discusses why an Iron Dome couldn't work in the UK, his thoughts on the recent Israel-Iran war, and why he didn't encourage his son to join the army. General Sanders stood down as head of the British army last summer. The former rifleman had been tipped to be the next Chief of the Defence Staff but fell out of favour with the Government for being too outspoken about the extent of troop cuts. Our defence editor Danielle interviewed him in his garden at his home in rural Wiltshire, with his blonde Labrador Fargo by his side.
The Independent
36 minutes ago
- Business
- The Independent
Trump threatens Russia with sanctions and tariffs if peace with Ukraine is not reached in 50 days
The United States could impose crippling secondary tariffs on Russia if the three-year-old war it has been waging against Ukraine is not brought to an end by September 2, President Donald Trump has said. Speaking in the Oval Office alongside NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, Trump said he's 'very unhappy' with Russia and Putin, and pledged to impose what he described as 'very severe tariffs' on Moscow 'if we don't have a deal in 50 days.' He said the tariffs — actually secondary sanctions against countries purchasing Russian oil — would be as high as 100 percent, effectively doubling the cost of imports from any country targeted by them.
LBCI
44 minutes ago
- Politics
- LBCI
Russian military chief inspects forces fighting in eastern Ukraine
The chief of Russia's general staff, Valery Gerasimov, has inspected the "Centre" group of Russian forces which is fighting in the Pokrovsk area of the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, Russia's defense ministry said on Monday. Pokrovsk, which Russia refers to by its Soviet-era name of Krasnoarmeisk, is one of the focal points of Russian military action in the drive to secure control over all of the Donetsk region. The defense ministry said the commanders of Russian units updated Gerasimov on battlefield developments. It posted a video on its Telegram channel, showing Gerasimov boarding, flying, and disembarking a military helicopter and then meeting the officers in military fatigues. Reuters
LBCI
44 minutes ago
- Politics
- LBCI
Trump to send Patriot missiles to Ukraine, US envoy visits Kyiv
Donald Trump's Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg began talks in Kyiv on Monday on security and sanctions against Russia after the U.S. president said he would send Patriot air defense missiles to Ukraine. In a sharp departure from his earlier stance, Trump was also expected to announce a new plan to arm Ukraine with offensive weapons, American news website Axios cited two sources familiar with the matter as saying. Trump's moves underline his growing disenchantment with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the lack of progress in U.S.-led efforts to secure a ceasefire in Russia's more than three-year-old war in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was expected to meet Kellogg in the Ukrainian capital, wants more defensive capabilities to fend off intense missile and drone attacks from Russia, which holds about one-fifth of Ukraine, is advancing in the east and shows no sign of abandoning its main war goals. Reuters
