{"id":263814,"date":"2025-07-14T09:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T09:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/263814\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T09:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T09:02:10","slug":"trump-flags-bit-of-a-problem-with-putin-ahead-of-big-announcement-on-ukraine-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/263814\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump flags \u2018bit of a problem\u2019 with Putin ahead of big announcement on Ukraine \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA turning point regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine is coming,\u201d said Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who is behind a proposal to impose \u201cbone-crushing\u201d tariffs on Russian exports. \u201cFor months, President Trump tried to entice Putin to the peace table. He has left the door open regarding Russia. That door is about to close,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Graham hinted that frozen Russian foreign assets could be used to fund weapons purchases for Ukraine. \u201cStay tuned about seized assets,\u201d he said. \u201cStay tuned for a plan for America to begin to sell a tremendous amount of weapons to Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Trump\u2019s Ukraine envoy, Keith Kellogg, arrived in Ukraine on Monday for a week-long official visit.<\/p>\n<p>Volodymyr Zelenskyy instructed his army and intelligence commanders to prepare full reports about the situation on the frontline and also Russia\u2019s plans for Kellogg, the Ukrainian president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XveRM1t8lzY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced Sunday evening<\/a>. \u201cThe information will be complete. We also count on America\u2019s full understanding of what can be done to force Russia to make peace,\u201d Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n<p>This article has been updated to correct the names of NATO&#8217;s secretary-general and Germany&#8217;s defense minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cA turning point regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine is coming,\u201d said Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[1213,7668,473,32,2595,52871,2000,299,1214,1824,2817,9204,660,47778,2992,2597,2598,602,332,2663,479,657,49,333,2601,335,1116],"class_list":{"0":"post-263814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-americas","9":"tag-boris-pistorius","10":"tag-defense","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-drones","13":"tag-economic-sanctions","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-europe","16":"tag-exports","17":"tag-germany","18":"tag-intelligence","19":"tag-keith-kellogg","20":"tag-kremlin","21":"tag-lindsey-graham","22":"tag-mark-rutte","23":"tag-military","24":"tag-missiles","25":"tag-pete-hegseth","26":"tag-russia","27":"tag-sanctions","28":"tag-tariffs","29":"tag-ukraine","30":"tag-united-states","31":"tag-vladimir-putin","32":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","33":"tag-war-in-ukraine","34":"tag-weapons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114850781157978801","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263814","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=263814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}