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| Donald Trump says he is ‘very angry’ with Vladimir Putin over Ukraine | Donald Trump says he is ‘very angry’ with Vladimir Putin over Ukraine |
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| US president tells NBC he did not like his Russian counterpart questioning Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s credibility | US president tells NBC he did not like his Russian counterpart questioning Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s credibility |
| Donald Trump has said he is “very angry, pissed off” with Vladimir Putin for questioning Ukraine’s leadership. | Donald Trump has said he is “very angry, pissed off” with Vladimir Putin for questioning Ukraine’s leadership. |
| In a sharp change of tone towards Moscow, the US president told an NBC reporter he was angered at his Russian counterpart’s querying of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s credibility. | In a sharp change of tone towards Moscow, the US president told an NBC reporter he was angered at his Russian counterpart’s querying of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s credibility. |
| “If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia’s fault, which it might not be, but if I think it was Russia’s fault, I am going to put secondary tariffs on oil, on all oil coming out of Russia,” he said. | |
| Elevated sanctions on Russia “would be that if you buy oil from Russia, you can’t do business in the United States,” he said. “There will be a 25% tariff on all … on all oil, a 25 to 50-point tariff on all oil.” | |
| Trump said he planned to speak to Putin in the coming week. | |
| He indicated that Putin’s call for new leadership in Ukraine meant that a peace deal could be delayed. “New leadership means you’re not gonna have a deal for a long time, right?” he said. | |
| “If I feel, if we’re in the midst of a negotiation, you could say that I was very angry, pissed off, when Putin said yesterday that … you know, when Putin started getting into Zelenskyy’s credibility, because that’s not going in the right location, you understand?” | |
| Trump’s comments come after months of criticism that the administration is acquiescing to Russian aggression in Ukraine in order to stop the three-year war. He has previously criticised Zelenskyy, saying he was sick of his handling of the war and calling him a dictator for failing to hold new elections. | |
| Trump said he had spoken with Putin “not long ago” and conveyed his anger but that despite his feelings he had “a very good relationship with him”. | |
| Trump also used his NBC interview to threaten to punish Iran if it did not make a deal with Washington over its nuclear programme. | |
| “If they don’t make a deal, there will be bombing,” he said, adding that he would also impose “secondary tariffs”. |