Trump offers Putin ‘very big favor’ and calls for ‘deal’ to end Ukraine war
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Trump is threatening unspecified sanctions on Moscow if Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn’t come to the negotiating table ‘soon’. President Donald Trump has called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate an end to the nearly three-year old war against Ukraine he started and is threatening further sanctions on Moscow if the Russian leader does not acquiesce.
In a statement posted to his Truth Social platform, Trump said he was “not looking to hurt Russia” and expressed “love” for the Russian people while boasting of his “very good relationship” with Putin, who in 2016 ordered what the Justice Department called a “sweeping and systematic” effort to interfere in the 2016 presidential election on Trump’s behalf.
He also noted that the former Soviet Union lost 60 million people when it allied itself against Nazi Germany and with the US and UK during the Second World War. “All of that being said, I’m going to do Russia, whose Economy is failing, and President Putin, a very big FAVOR. Settle now, and STOP this ridiculous War! IT’S ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE,” Trump said.
He added a threat that if a “deal” was not reached “soon,” he would “no other choice but to put high levels of Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States, and various other participating countries.”.
