Ukraine-Russia warfare stay: Trump ‘very angry’ with Putin for stalling ceasefire and threatens oil sanctions | EUROtoday

Russia launched 131 drones and two ballistic missiles in an in a single day assault, Kyiv mentioned.

The Ukrainian air power mentioned it shot down 57 drones throughout the assault on Sunday evening.

It added that one other 45 drones didn’t attain their targets – doubtless because of digital countermeasures – however didn’t specify what occurred to the remaining 29 drones.

Finnish president Alexander Stubb mentioned that Donald Trump is rising more and more annoyed with Vladimir Putin’s delays in agreeing to a Ukraine ceasefire.

He made the remarks after spending a number of hours with the US president at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Saturday, the place he additionally received a golf competitors with Mr Trump.

“I think we’re probably moving into the direction where the Americans are seeing Russia for what it’s worth. In other words, the overall ceasefire has been agreed by the United States, by Ukraine and by Europe, but not by Russia,” he informed the Guardian after touchdown within the UK.

“The half-ceasefire has been broken by Russia, and I think America, and my sense is also the president of the United States, is running out of patience with Russia. I think that’s good news for engagement and negotiation. So this is what I sensed over the weekend as well.”

US president Donald Trump has mentioned he was “very angry” and “pissed off” with Vladimir Putin, his strongest rebuke in the direction of the Russian president in weeks amid drawn-out makes an attempt to dealer a ceasefire.

In an interview with NBC, Mr Trump threatened to impose secondary tariffs of 25 per cent to 50 per cent on patrons of Russian oil if he feels Moscow is obstructing his efforts to finish the warfare in Ukraine.

“If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia’s fault – which it might not be… I am going to put secondary tariffs… on all oil coming out of Russia,” he mentioned.

Mr Trump’s criticism of Mr Putin got here after the Russian chief instructed that Mr Zelensky lacks the legitimacy to signal a peace deal, and that Ukraine wanted to put in a UN-led exterior authorities earlier than any settlement to finish the warfare will be accomplished.

The White House mentioned each nations agreed to a number of key measures following the talks in Riyadh.

Russia and Ukraine agreed to:

• Cease utilizing power and permit the secure navigation of ships within the Black Sea.
• Develop measures for implementing the settlement to ban strikes on vitality services.
• Work with mediating nations to implement the agreements.
• Work in the direction of an enduring peace.

As a part of the settlement, the US additionally mentioned it could assist restore Russia’s entry to world agricultural and fertiliser markets – which have been hit by sanctions over the warfare, assist decrease maritime insurance coverage prices and enhance entry to ports and worldwide fee programs.

For Ukraine, the US mentioned it remained dedicated to serving to facilitate prisoners of warfare exchanges in addition to the discharge of civilian detainees, and assist “the return of forcibly transferred Ukrainian children”.

However, Russia has mentioned the deal can not start till its circumstances are met for restored entry to world commerce markets and fee programs.

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North Korea despatched an extra 3,000 troops and missiles to Russia originally of 2025 to assist its invasion in Ukraine, South Korea’s army mentioned in its newest evaluation final week, as Kim Jong Un is prone to go to Moscow once more.

Russia continued strikes within the metropolis of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine for the second evening in a row, injuring two individuals, sparking fires and damaging a kindergarten and personal homes, Ukrainian officers mentioned early on Monday.

The assaults on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest metropolis, lasted a lot of the evening and hit town’s largest and oldest district, mayor Ihor Terekhov mentioned.

“The sixth explosion in Kharkiv,” Mr Terekhov mentioned in a put up on the Telegram messaging app on Monday.

It was not clear what was the goal of those strikes that got here per week after the US brokered a partial ceasefire on strikes on vitality and Black Sea infrastructure.

Both sides have accused one another of breaking the moratorium.

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday mentioned Moscow had fired greater than 1,000 drones previously week and referred to as for a response from the US and different allies.

Oleh Sinehubov, governor of the Kharkiv area, mentioned on Monday that the in a single day assaults adopted a late Sunday missile strike on town of Kupiansk that left three injured and demolished greater than 10 homes and a neighborhood cemetery.

Russia’s air defence items intercepted and destroyed 66 Ukrainian drones in a single day, the Russian defence ministry mentioned on Monday.

Forty-one of the drones had been destroyed over the border Bryansk area, 24 over the territory of the Kaluga area and one over the territory of the Kursk area, it mentioned.

The regional governors of Bryansk and Kaluga mentioned on social media that there was no harm on account of the assaults.

Two individuals had been killed and dozens wounded after Russian drones hit a army hospital, buying centre and condominium blocks in Ukraine’s second-largest metropolis of Kharkiv.

Ukraine’s General Staff had denounced the “deliberate, targeted shelling” of the army hospital late on Saturday.

Among the casualties had been service members who had been present process remedy, it mentioned.

Regional governor Oleh Syniehubov mentioned these killed had been a 67-year-old man and a 70-year-old girl.

Mr Zelensky mentioned on Sunday that over the previous week “most regions of Ukraine” had come underneath Russian assault.

Writing on X, he repeated his assertion that “Russia is dragging out the war”, echoing feedback he made on Thursday that Russia is prolonging ceasefire talks “just to buy time and then try to grab more land”.

Donald Trump has threatened secondary sanctions on Russian oil, a transfer that analysts say may have a far-reaching impact on the oil market.

Mr Trump mentioned there can be “a 25 to 50-point tariff on all oil” if a deal is just not made between Russia and Ukraine and “if I think it was Russia’s fault”.

“Anybody buying oil from Russia will not be able to sell their product, any product, not just oil, into the United States.”

Analysts counsel that India and China – the most important patrons of Russian oil – can be the worst affected by the secondary sanctions.

Russia is among the world’s three largest oil exporters, which means it may have a punishing affect on these shopping for Russian oil and distruptions within the commerce would have a destabilising affect in the marketplace.

William Reinsch, a former senior Commerce Department official now on the Center for Strategic and International Studies, mentioned the haphazard means Mr Trump was saying and threatening tariffs leaves many questions unanswered, together with how US officers may hint and show which nations had been shopping for Russian oil.

India has surpassed China to grow to be the most important purchaser of seaborne Russian crude, which comprised about 35 per cent of India’s complete crude imports in 2024.

Russia’s defence ministry says it has captured Zaporizhzhia, a village in Ukraine’s Donetsk area, after a missile assault.

“Battlegroup Center units completed the liberation of the settlement of Zaporozhye in the Donetsk People’s Republic through successful offensive operations,” the ministry mentioned in a press release, utilizing its personal names for the village and the area that it claims to have annexed, illegally, from Ukraine.

It mentioned a missile strike on Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) items killed as much as 170 troops and overseas mercenaries over the previous day.

The village is unrelated to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant which is in one other area of the identical identify to the south.

The village lies simply 7km from the border of Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk area.