Trump criticizes Putin on continued attacks in Ukraine

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Donald Trump expressed frustration with Russia about his continued attacks in Ukraine, but said that an agreement to end the war remained available.

The President of the United States on Sunday evening reiterated his critique of Vladimir Putin on the persistent Moscow air attacks in Ukraine, as Washington grows impatiently in the midst of the efforts of the fault to make a peace agreement.

“I was very disappointed that the missiles flew (thrown) by Russia,” Trump told journalists while traveling back to the White House. “I want Putin (Putin) to stop shooting, sitting and signing an agreement.”

Comments come from Washington to propose pressure on the two parties to agree on a ceasefire and a day after Trump became known to the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Apart from the Pope Francis funeral in Rome.

Trump said that the meeting, the first since the February Oval Office explosion, had been a “beautiful meeting” and praised Zelenskyy to “do a good job”, adding: “I see him calmer. I think he understands the image and I think he wants to make an agreement.”

Russia last week launched his More deadly strike of the year In Kyiv, killing 12 civilians and injuring 90 more. Following the attack, Trump brought to his real social platform to offer a rare reproach of his Russian counterpart. “Vladimir, stop -vos!” He wrote, marking the “unnecessary” attack.

In an interview, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov insisted that Russia would not be pushed for his strikes on Sunday.

“We will continue to go to the places used by the Ukraine military, for some mercenaries in foreign countries and by instructors that Europeans officially sent to help guide Russian civilians,” Lavrov said to the CBS nation show in a previously recorded interview.

Zelenskyy said on Sunday that Russian continued strikes, including almost 70 years only at noon, made it clear that “more tangible pressure on Russia is needed to create more opportunities for real diplomacy.”

He wrote Ax: “The situation of the first line and the actual activity of the Russian army show that the current global pressure on Russia is insufficient to end this war.”

Trump Steve Witkoff Special Sentation Met Putin last week For what Kremlin described as a “constructive” meeting.

But senior administration officials indicated that Washington was growing more and more impatient and willing to move away from peace conversations if an agreement was not quickly reached.

“It must happen soon,” said United State Secretary Marco Rubio, said on the NBC press on Sunday. “We cannot continue to devote time and resources to this effort if it will not come to fruition.”

He said that this week the United States had a “determination on whether it is an effort in which we want to continue to be involved or if it is time to focus on some other issues”.