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Donald Trump said he was “angry” with Vladimir Putin for being a ceasefire in conversations with Ukraine, because the US President threatened secondary tariffs on Russian oil buyers, unless any agreement is completed.
Trump's comments on Sunday revealed frustrations from the White House with the Russian President, because negotiations on the settlement of war in Ukraine continue without a clear breakthrough.
The new threat to hit imports from countries buying Russian oil comes when Trump is preparing to store tariffs on goods from many US business partners on Wednesday. The President declared the moment of “Liberation Day”, but the plan caused the plan to be unrest in the markets and anxiety between businesses and governments around the world.
Trump's explosion in Moscow is a shift in the tone of the US President, who blamed Volodymyr Zeleny, Ukrainian President for weeks for reluctant to make an agreement.
The US President carried out Putin for attacking the legitimacy of Zeletskyy as the leader of Kyiv.
“If we are in the middle of the negotiations, one could say that I was very angry, angry … When Putin began to receive the credibility of Zelenkyy,” Trump NBC News said. “It's not going to the right place, do you understand?”
While Ukraine agreed with the US requirements for a complete 30-day ceasefire, Russia refused this plan and admitted only a ceasefire concerning the objectives of energy infrastructure and naval operations in the Black Sea only if the Western first provides sanctions for some agricultural goods.
Zeletskyy accused Russia of violating the energy ceasefire at least twice from the time it was agreed. “Russia must be forced to be in peace – only pressure will work,” he said this weekend.
Finnish President Alexander Stubb, who spent seven hours with Trump on Saturday at his resort Mar-A-Lago, including Golf with Trump, The Financial Times said that the US President “came patience” with Putin over the ceasefire.
“I think we are moving in the right direction,” Stubb said on a visit to London, where briefly British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on his discussions with Trump on Monday.
Stubb said he proposed to determine the deadline of 20 April-Kirty is three months since Trump returned to the White House-to accept the 30-day unconditional ceasefire on the ground, sea and air. How the Western and Eastern Christian Church will celebrate Easter 20 April this year, a rare alignment of the calendar.
“The Russians stop, come up with new conditions,” Stubb said. “We will call Putin's bluff about what it is. Russia does not want peace at this stage. So we have to force peace to Russia.”
Trump had previously threatened Russia with new tariffs and sanctions if it resisted the agreement, but the expansion of trade with the buyer of Russian oil in other countries on Putin will bring more pressure.
“If an agreement is not concluded, and if I think it was Russia, I will make secondary sanctions on Russia,” Trump NBC said.
Trump did not offer a clear explanation of what the plan would include. He said that “anyone buyers from Russia will not be able to sell their product to the United States, any product, not only oil,” but also said that there would be “25 to 50-point tariff on all oil”.
The US President added that he would slap “secondary tariffs” on Iran if they could not conclude an agreement on their nuclear program because he restored his threat of “bombing” Tehran if they did not agree.
