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WASHINGTON (NewsNation) — President Donald Trump is "disappointed but not done" with Russian President Vladimir Putin, pursuing an announcement of caller subject enactment for Ukraine and a program to people buyers of Russian lipid with terrible tariffs.
Speaking to the BBC hours aft the announcement, Trump expressed vexation with Putin’s absorption to U.S.-led bid efforts, and erstwhile pressed connected whether helium trusts the Russian leader, helium replied: "I spot astir nobody."
Russia has 50 days to negociate a ceasefire with Ukraine. If not, countries that proceed to import Russian vigor could look secondary tariffs of up to 100%, Trump said.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called Trump’s determination a “theatrical ultimatum,” posting connected societal media: "The satellite shuddered, expecting the consequences. Belligerent Europe was disappointed. Russia didn’t care."
While the Kremlin has not straight responded to Trump’s remarks, a elder Russian authoritative progressive successful negotiations with the United States described the determination arsenic a “doomed-to-fail effort astatine pressure.”
Russia has continued to person weapons from its trading partners, helping it bypass existing sanctions.
‘Severe’ tariff threat connected Russia looms
Trump has said helium hopes the tariff menace tin propulsion a woody to extremity Russia's three-year warfare successful Ukraine.
“We thought we had 4 deals with Putin,” Trump said Monday. “We get disconnected the telephone aft a bully conversation, and past helium sends missiles into buildings. I said, ‘What was that each about?’”
June marked the highest fig of civilian casualties of the war, according to the U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Mission successful Ukraine.
Seated alongside NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte successful the Oval Office connected Monday, Trump besides announced caller weapons for Ukraine and threatened secondary tariffs of 100% connected buyers of Russian exports, of which crude lipid makes up a important portion.
Trump’s tariff menace is aimed astatine countries backing Russia’s warfare done lipid and state purchases, which stay Moscow’s cardinal gross stream. The projected 100% tariffs would drastically summation economical unit connected those buyers.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
