{"id":265893,"date":"2025-07-15T03:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T03:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/265893\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T03:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T03:29:10","slug":"trump-threatens-russia-with-severe-tariffs-announces-ukraine-arms-deal-donald-trump-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/265893\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens Russia with \u2018severe\u2019 tariffs, announces Ukraine arms deal | Donald Trump News"},"content":{"rendered":"

United States President Donald Trump has announced a deal to supply more weapons<\/a> to Ukraine and has threatened to impose steep tariffs on Russia unless a peace deal is reached within 50 days.<\/p>\n

The announcements on Monday marked a dramatic U-turn for US policy, as it comes weeks after the Pentagon announced it would be pausing weapons shipments to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

But Trump has become increasingly frustrated with Russian President Vladimir Putin and hopes the weapons will help bring a swift end to Russia\u2019s more than three-year invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Sitting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte at the Oval Office, Trump told reporters he was disappointed in Putin and that billions of dollars of US weapons would go to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to make top-of-the-line weapons, and they\u2019ll be sent to NATO,\u201d Trump said, adding that Washington\u2019s NATO allies would pay for them.<\/p>\n

The weapons would include Patriot air defence missiles Ukraine has urgently sought, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a full complement with the batteries,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to have some come very soon, within days.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have one country that has 17 Patriots getting ready to be shipped \u2026 we\u2019re going to work a deal where the 17 will go, or a big portion of the 17 will go to the war site.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Severe tariffs\u2019<\/p>\n

He added that if Putin failed to sign a peace deal with Ukraine, he would impose \u201cvery severe tariffs\u201d in 50 days, including secondary tariffs of 100 percent.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to be doing secondary tariffs,\u201d Trump said. \u201cIf we don\u2019t have a deal in 50 days, it\u2019s very simple, and they\u2019ll be at 100 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n

The threat to impose so-called secondary sanctions on Russia, if carried out, would be a major shift in Western sanctions policy.<\/p>\n

Throughout the war, Western countries have cut most of their own financial ties to Moscow, but have held back from taking steps that would restrict Russia from selling its oil elsewhere. That has allowed Moscow to continue earning hundreds of billions of dollars from shipping oil to buyers such as China and India.<\/p>\n

A White House official told the Reuters news agency that Trump was referring to 100 percent tariffs on Russian goods as well as secondary sanctions on other countries that buy its exports.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers from both US political parties are pushing for a bill that would authorise such measures, targeting other countries that buy Russian oil. The bill would give Trump the authority to impose 500 percent tariffs on any country that helps Russia, but the chamber\u2019s Republican leaders have been waiting for Trump to give them the go-ahead for a vote.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Telegram that he had spoken to Trump and \u201cthanked him for his readiness to support Ukraine and to continue working together to stop the killings and establish a lasting and just peace\u201d.<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy said he also had \u201ca productive conversation\u201d with Trump\u2019s envoy Keith Kellogg in Kyiv on Monday, about strengthening Ukrainian air defences, joint arms production and purchasing US weapons in conjunction with European countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope for the leadership of the United States, because it is clear that Moscow will not stop unless its \u2026 ambitions are stopped by force,\u201d Zelenskyy said on Telegram.<\/p>\n

\u2018Speed is of the essence\u2019<\/p>\n

Trump took office with a promise to end Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine within 24 hours, and sought rapprochement with Moscow, speaking several times with Putin.<\/p>\n

His administration has pulled back from pro-Ukrainian policies such as backing Kyiv\u2019s membership in NATO and demanding Russia withdraw from all Ukrainian territory.<\/p>\n

Trump has also accused Zelenskyy of prolonging the war and called him a \u201cdictator without elections\u201d.<\/p>\n

But Putin has yet to accept a proposal from Trump for an unconditional ceasefire, which was quickly endorsed by Kyiv. And in recent days, Russia has launched hundreds of drones to attack Ukrainian cities, angering the US president.<\/p>\n

Trump, who accused Putin last week of throwing a lot of \u201cb*******\u201d at the US, said on Monday that his shift was motivated by frustration with the Russian president.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy conversations with him are always very pleasant \u2026 I go home, I tell the first lady: \u2018I spoke to Vladimir today, we had a wonderful conversation\u2019. She said: \u2018Oh, really? Another city was just hit\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

The US leader said he thought that \u201cwe actually had probably four times a deal\u201d but then it \u201cwouldn\u2019t happen because bombs would be thrown out that night\u201d.<\/p>\n

Trump said that, unlike his predecessors, he was not \u201cfooled\u201d by Putin, and that ultimately, talk doesn\u2019t talk. It\u2019s got to be action \u2026 He knows the deal. He knows what a fair deal is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rutte, the NATO secretary-general, commended Trump\u2019s announcement, saying: \u201cIt will mean that Ukraine can get its hands on really massive numbers of military equipment, both for air defence, but also missiles, ammunition, etc.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I was Vladimir Putin today, and hear you speaking about what you were planning to do in 50 days, and this announcement, I would reconsider whether I should not take negotiations about Ukraine more seriously than I was doing at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that Germany, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Canada all wanted to be a part of rearming Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Rutte added that \u201cspeed is of the essence here\u201d, and suggested that some weapons would be rushed to Ukraine and later replaced with purchases from the US.<\/p>\n

Germany to play \u2018decisive role\u2019<\/p>\n

In Kyiv, Ukrainians are cautiously viewing the announcement as a strong message of support, despite the many unknown details, according to Al Jazeera\u2019s Rory Challands.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Patriot batteries really do make their way to Ukraine, then that is going to go a long way to protecting the skies over this country, as it tries to endure almost nightly massive barrages of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones,\u201d he said from the Ukrainian capital.<\/p>\n

There was no immediate response from Moscow.<\/p>\n

But within Russian society, the US-NATO announcement was greeted with disappointment, said Al Jazeera\u2019s Yulia Shapovalova.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were hopes when Donald Trump came into power that the conflict would end,\u201d she said from Moscow. \u201cPeople saw that Trump had some steps to bring peace to Ukraine to help finish this conflict, but now, he\u2019s kind of lost his patience. Pro-war sources say: \u2018You see, we told you that Russia didn\u2019t have to trust Donald Trump because he was not Russia\u2019s friend\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Germany, meanwhile, welcomed the new weapons deal.<\/p>\n

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, in a statement on Monday, said that Trump has \u201ctaken an important step today\u201d and that he has assured the US leader that \u201cGermany will play a decisive role\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are doing this in our own interests,\u201d Merz said, adding that Germany was still working with its allies to \u201cclarify the details\u201d of the plan.<\/p>\n

The European Union\u2019s top diplomat also hailed Trump\u2019s announcement as a \u201cpositive step\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the other hand, 50 days is a very long time if we see that they are killing innocent civilians every day,\u201d Kaja Kallas told reporters in Brussels. \u201cSo, it\u2019s clear that we all need to put more pressure on Russia to want peace, and it\u2019s good that the Americans are taking action.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United States President Donald Trump has announced a deal to supply more weapons to Ukraine and has threatened…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[32,299,2821,12,332,7661,657,49,978,286,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-265893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-nato","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","14":"tag-ukraine","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-us-canada","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114855134029209323","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265893","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=265893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}