{"id":611642,"date":"2025-12-04T12:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/611642\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T12:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:37:11","slug":"trumps-8-word-outburst-at-putin-as-russia-wrecks-ukraine-peace-talks-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/611642\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s 8-word outburst at Putin as Russia wrecks Ukraine peace talks | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Donald Trump\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> has issued a fiery eight-word message to <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Vladimir Putin \" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/vladimir-putin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vladimir Putin<\/a> and the Kremlin after the future of the <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Ukraine\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> peace talks was thrown into doubt. The US president said he does not understand the Kremlin&#8217;s motives in the ongoing talks, the most recent of which involved US and Russian delegations.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump was asked by reporters how he thought future meetings might play out. He responded: &#8220;I don\u2019t know what the Kremlin is doing.&#8221; This is despite the Republican previously describing the US-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/russia\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia<\/a> summit as &#8220;reasonably good&#8221;, adding that he <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/2141556\/trump-humiliated-5-word-verdict-putin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">believes Putin &#8220;would like to end the war&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what the Kremlin is doing. I can tell you that they had a <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/2141546\/putin-rejects-ukraine-peace-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reasonably good meeting with President Putin<\/a>. We&#8217;re going to find out. It&#8217;s a war that should have never been started.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What comes out of that meeting? I can&#8217;t tell you, because it does take two to tango.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He would like to end the war. That was their impression. Now, whether or not you know that was their impression, you know their impression was that they&#8217;d like to see he would like to see the war ended.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The US delegation included envoy Steve Witkoff and Mr Trump&#8217;s son-in-law Jared Kushner.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Marco Rubio said there had been &#8220;some progress&#8221;, but &#8220;we&#8217;re still not there&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>On the Russian side, Putin&#8217;s presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/2142042\/putin-russia-real-reason-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;no compromise&#8221; had been reached during<\/a> the five-hour meeting, with territorial concessions remaining the top issue.<\/p>\n<p>He said Russia has a &#8220;critical and even negative attitude towards some of the proposals&#8221; brought forward by the US.<\/p>\n<p>Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov claimed Russia was open to further talks, calling it &#8220;a normal working process towards finding a compromise&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;Something was accepted, while something was marked as unacceptable.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has issued a fiery eight-word message to Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin after the future of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[32,4609,12,2046,1757,657,47503,86727,333,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-611642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-international-relations","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-putin","12":"tag-trump","13":"tag-ukraine","14":"tag-ukraine-peace-talks","15":"tag-us-russia-relations","16":"tag-vladimir-putin","17":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115661337057316994","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611642","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=611642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}