{"id":263602,"date":"2025-07-14T07:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T07:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/263602\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T07:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T07:03:08","slug":"trump-says-us-will-send-sophisticated-equipment-to-ukraine-as-he-criticises-putin-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/263602\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US will send &#8216;sophisticated&#8217; equipment to Ukraine as he criticises Putin &#8211; follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;There&#8217;s a little bit of a problem there&#8217;: How Trump has shifted on Putinpublished at 07:53 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>07:53 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"putin looks at the camera. trump has his head turned towards putin but you can't see his face. both men are in suits.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/43501f53-956e-444a-a634-979568113cfc.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, ReutersImage caption, <\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssrcss-1ynsflq-UnorderedList e1q8fsc70\">\n<li spacing=\"rich-text\" class=\"ssrcss-131sxq9-Stack e1y4nx260\">\n      <b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">This post contains language some readers may find offensive<\/b>\n    <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Donald Trump&#8217;s recent criticisms of Vladimir Putin are a marked shift in tone from the US president, who had previously taken a warmer stance towards the Russian leader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After he returned to the White House in January, Trump set out to restore relations with Russia, holding phone calls with Putin, and arranging high-level talks between representatives from Washington and Moscow in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Early in his term, he also repeated Russian talking points &#8211; referring to Ukrainian President Voldoymyr Zelensky as a &#8220;dictator&#8221;, for example. The US also voted alongside Russia against a UN resolution identifying Russia as the &#8220;aggressor&#8221; in the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But that is now changing. In the spring, Trump told reporters he was &#8220;pissed off&#8221; with Putin and threatened new tariffs on Russian oil exports if he felt that Moscow was delaying a peace deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On 3 July, the two leaders spoke by phone. Trump has since expressed frustration that a ceasefire breakthrough wasn&#8217;t reached, telling a cabinet meeting &#8220;I&#8217;m not happy about that&#8221; and adding &#8220;we get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Sunday, he went further again, saying Putin &#8220;talks nice and then he bombs everybody in the evening&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;There&#8217;s a little bit of a problem there&#8217;: How Trump has shifted on Putinpublished at 07:53 British Summer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-263602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114850313326877424","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}