Trump should make an announcement on Russia while the American envoy arrives in Ukraine – National
US President Donald Trump’s special envoy in Ukraine and Russia retired Kellogg retired on Monday, said a senior Ukrainian official, when anticipation grew up on a possible change in the Trump administration policy on the three-year war.
Last week, Trump said he would make a “major statement” on Russia on Monday. Trump quickly stopped war one of his diplomatic priorities, and he expressed more and more frustration about the unlocking position of Russian President Vladimir Putin on the peaceful peace efforts by the United States.
Trump has long boasted of his friendly relationship with Putin, and after taking office in January, Russia was more disposed of on several occasions than Ukraine to conclude a peace agreement. At the same time, Trump accused Zelenskyy of prolonging the war and called him a “dictator without elections”.
But the relentless assault of Russia against the civil regions of Ukraine brought Trump’s patience. In April, Trump urged Putin to “stop!” Launching fatal dams on kyiv, and the following month, said in an article on social networks that the Russian leader “has gone absolutely crazy!” While the bombing continued.
“I am very disappointed with President Putin, I thought he was someone who meant what he had said,” Trump said late on Sunday. “He will speak so well and then he will bomb people at night. We don’t like it. “
The European Union cannot buy patriotic missiles
Russia has struck Ukrainian cities, including the capital, kyiv, with hundreds of drones and cruise and ballistic missiles that Ukraine’s air defenses have trouble countering. June has made the highest monthly civilian victims of the last three years, with 232 people killed and 1,343 injured, said the United Nations Human Rights Mission in Ukraine. Russia launched 10 times more drones and missiles in June than the same month of last year, he said.
At the same time, the largest army in Russia makes a new effort to bring Ukrainian defenders back to the parts of the 1,000 -kilometer (620 mile) front line.
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Trump has confirmed that the United States sends the Missiles of the Air Defense Patriot of Ukraine and that the European Union will pay the United States for weapons “various very sophisticated weapons”.
Although the EU is not authorized under its treaties to buy weapons, the EU member countries can and are, just as NATO member countries buy and send weapons.
Germany has proposed to finance two new Patriot systems and awaits official discussions on the more possibility, government spokesman Stefan Kornelius said on Monday in Berlin.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius went to Washington on Monday to meet the defense secretary Pete Hegseth.
Germany has already given three of its own patriotic systems to Ukraine, and Pistorius reportedly declared in an interview with the Financial Times that there are only six now.
Trump Ally says war in the inflection point
An ally of Trump, the Republican Senator Lindsey Graham from South Carolina, said on Sunday that the conflict was approaching a inflection point while Trump shows an increasing interest in helping Ukraine to retaliate against the large -scale invasion of Russia. This is a cause that Trump had previously rejected as a waste of American taxpayers.
“In the coming days, you will see weapons flowing to a record level to help Ukraine defend himself,” said Graham on “Face The Nation” of CBS. “He added:” One of Putin’s biggest calculation errors is to play Trump. And you just look at, in the coming days and weeks, there will be a massive effort to bring Putin to the table. “
Kirill Dmitriev, Putin’s envoy for international investment who participated in talks with American officials in Saudi Arabia in February, rejected what he said was efforts to make a gap between Moscow and Washington.
“The constructive dialogue between Russia and the United States is more effective than sentenced pressure attempts,” said Dmitriev in an article on Telegram. “This dialogue will continue, despite Titanic’s efforts to disturb him by all possible means.”
The NATO chief visit Washington
NATO secretary general Mark Rutte was to be in Washington on Monday and Tuesday. He planned to speak with Trump, Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, as well as members of the Congress.
Top players during Kellogg’s visit to kyiv will cover “defense, security strengthening, weapons, sanctions, protection of our people and improving cooperation between Ukraine and the United States,” said the head of the presidential office of Ukraine, Andrii Yermak.
“Russia does not want to stop. Peace by force is the principle of President Donald Trump, and we support this approach,” said Yermak.
Russian troops have made an air shot combined in Shostka, in the northern region of Sumy in Ukraine, using Bombs and Glide drones early, killing two people, the regional prosecutor’s office said. Four others were injured, including a seven-year-old child, he said.
Dive from Sunday to Monday, Russia fired four S-300/400 and 136 Shahed and Lure Dones in Ukraine, Air Force said. He said 61 drones were intercepted and that 47 others were either blocked or lost radars in mid-vol.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said that its air defenses had decreased 11 Ukrainian drones in the Russian regions on the border with Ukraine, as well as on annexed Crimea and the Black Sea.
–The writers of the Associated Press Lorne Cook in Brussels and Geir Moulson in Berlin contributed to this report.
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