President Donald Trump is “pissed off” at Russian President Vladimir Putin for lashing out at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this weekend, he told NBC News in an interview.<\/p>\n
Trump told the outlet that he was frustrated with Putin for not moving in the right direction toward a peace agreement with Ukraine.<\/a> Putin disparaged Zelenskyy’s leadership on Friday, arguing that a trans-national government may be necessary for Ukraine.<\/p>\n “If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia\u2019s fault \u2014 which it might not be \u2014 but if I think it was Russia\u2019s fault, I am going to put secondary tariffs on oil, on all oil coming out of Russia,” Trump told the outlet.<\/a><\/p>\n “That would be that if you buy oil from Russia, you can\u2019t do business in the United States,” he continued. “There will be a 25% tariff on all oil, a 25- to 50-point tariff on all oil.”<\/p>\n ELON MUSK TO GIVE TALK IN WISCONSIN AHEAD OF CLOSELY WATCHED STATE SUPREME COURT CONTEST: \u2018SUPER IMPORTANT\u2019<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Trump nevertheless clarified that his anger will “dissipate quickly” if Putin “does the right thing.”<\/p>\n Trump last spoke to Putin last week, and the pair plan to have another conversation this week.<\/p>\n RUSSIA, UKRAINE AGREE TO BLACK SEA CEASEFIRE FOLLOWING US TALKS<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Putin’s latest aggression has gone beyond words as well, with his forces engaging in multiple attacks on Ukrainian targets<\/a> over the weekend.<\/p>\n Four people were killed and 24 were injured Friday evening after Russian drones struck Dnipro in the country\u2019s east, according to regional Gov. Serhii Lysak and Ukraine\u2019s emergency service. At least eight more people were injured when a Russian ballistic missile struck nearby Kryvyi Rih, Zelenskyy\u2019s hometown, Gov. Lysak reported.<\/p>\n A drone attack in Kharkiv on Saturday night also killed two people and injured 35 more.<\/p>\n Putin himself praised the “strategic initiative” of his forces on Thursday.<\/p>\n “Our troops, our guys are moving forward and liberating one territory after another, one settlement after another, every day,” he said at a public forum.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Zelenskyy has urged the U.S. to force Moscow to reign in its aggression.<\/p>\n On Thursday, Zelenskyy met with French President Emmanuel Macron\u00a0ahead of a summit in Paris of some 30 nations about how to strengthen Kyiv\u2019s hand and its military as it\u00a0pushes for a ceasefire with Russia. Proposals to\u00a0deploy European troops\u00a0in the country in tandem with any peace deal are also being discussed.<\/p>\n Fox News’ Michael Dorgan and the Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Donald Trump is “pissed off” at Russian President Vladimir Putin for lashing out at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this weekend, he told NBC News in an interview. Trump told the outlet that he was frustrated with Putin for not moving in the right direction toward a peace agreement with Ukraine. Putin disparaged Zelenskyy’s leadership … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}