Donald Trump said Monday that he expects Russian President Vladimir Putin to “fulfil his part” of an agreement to halt the Ukraine conflict, after the US president expressed reservations about Moscow’s commitment.
“I want to make sure that he follows through,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “I think he’s going to live up to what he told me, and I think he’s going to fulfil his part of the deal now.”
Trump criticised both Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday as he seeks to end the country’s more than three-year-old war.
Trump told NBC he was “very angry” with Putin for undermining Zelenskyy’s integrity as a negotiator and pushing for new leadership in Ukraine.
Putin earlier this month rejected a US proposal of an unconditional ceasefire in Ukraine – that Zelenskyy backed – and has upped his rhetoric on Moscow wanting to install new leadership in Ukraine.
On Sunday, NBC News journalist Kristen Walker said Trump had called her to say he was “pissed off” with Putin and threatened tariffs on firms dealing with Russian oil.
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