{"id":38749,"date":"2025-07-04T18:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T18:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/38749\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T18:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T18:41:12","slug":"i-dont-think-hes-looking-to-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/38749\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I don\u2019t think he\u2019s looking to stop’"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump<\/a> expressed dismay with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin<\/a> early Friday, admitting that the Kremlin tyrant has no interest in stopping his bloody war on neighboring Ukraine anytime soon.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very disappointed with the conversation I had [Thursday] with President Putin because I don\u2019t think he\u2019s there. I\u2019m just saying, I don\u2019t think he\u2019s looking to stop, and that\u2019s too bad,\u201d Trump told reporters after returning to Washington following a pre-Independence Day event in Iowa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s [former President Joe] Biden\u2019s war, and I got stuck in the middle of it, just like I did with immigration and a lot of other things that they screwed up,\u201d he went on. \u201cBut I was not happy with the conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Trump appears to have been souring on Russian leader Vladimir Putin over recent weeks. AP<\/p>\n

During the roughly hour-long call, Moscow\u2019s ruler stated that his country \u201cwill not back down\u201d from the \u201cgoals\u201d of its invasion, according to a Kremlin readout.<\/p>\n

Russia has insisted that any peace agreement with Ukraine recognize its troop gains in the eastern Donbas region, a prospect Kyiv sees as a red line. <\/p>\n

Moscow has also repeatedly rejected American and European cease-fire proposals, which have received buy-in from the Ukrainian government.<\/p>\n

Prior to departing for Iowa, the president made clear that \u201cI didn\u2019t make any progress\u201d with his Russian counterpart \u201cat all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, the White House confirmed that it had halted shipments<\/a> of missiles and other valuable materiel to Ukraine following a review of American stockpiles.<\/p>\n

\u201cBiden emptied out our whole country, giving them weapons, and we have to make sure that we have enough for ourselves,\u201d the 47th president contended.<\/p>\n

Putin has sought to court Trump through a series of overtures and public praise. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve given so many weapons, but we are giving weapons, and we\u2019re working with them and trying to help them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of last week\u2019s NATO summit in The Hague and later indicated he was \u201cgoing to see\u201d if the US could send Patriot missile interceptors to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Trump had a call with Zelensky Friday before heading off for a round of golf at his northern Virginia course.<\/p>\n

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Flames engulfed Kyiv in the aftermath of Russia\u2019s brutal onslaught against the Ukrainian capital. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cWe \u2014 in Ukraine \u2014 are grateful for all the support provided. It helps us protect lives, safeguard our freedom and independence,\u201d Zelensky recapped<\/a> on X. \u201cPresident Trump is very well informed, and I thank him for his attention to Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe spoke about opportunities in air defense and agreed that we will work together to strengthen protection of our skies. We have also agreed to a meeting between our teams.\u201d<\/p>\n

Overnight, Russia again pummeled Ukraine<\/a> with more than 500 drones and 11 missiles, breaking its prior record for the largest aerial attack of its kind on Kyiv.<\/p>\n

At least 23 were injured in the brutal bombardment. <\/p>\n

Russia has been constantly breaking records for its largest aerial attacks on Kyiv as its drone technology advances. STATE EMERGENSY SERVICE OF UKRAINE\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

In Washington, bipartisan pressure has been mounting to pass a sanctions package that would further tighten the screws on Moscow.<\/p>\n

So far, the Trump administration has encouraged lawmakers to soften the punitive measures in order to avoid jeopardizing potential peace talks with Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump expressed dismay with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin early Friday, admitting that the Kremlin tyrant has no…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":38750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,69,3350,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,80,257,273,430,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,274],"class_list":{"0":"post-38749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-foreign-policy","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-russia","19":"tag-ukraine","20":"tag-ukraine-war","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-us-news","27":"tag-usa","28":"tag-vladimir-putin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114796434787436445","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}