Ukrainekrieg: Donald Trump accuses Wladimir Putin “Game with the Fire” | EUROtoday

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US President Donald Trump has the Russian president Wladimir Putin Warned earlier than a continuation of his course within the UkraineKrieg. “He plays with the fire,” Trump wrote in his on-line service Truth Social. “What Vladimir Putin does not understand is that Russia had already happened many really bad things without me,” he added. And he my “really bad things”, wrote Trump in capital letters.

The vice-chief of the Russian safety council and Putin confidante Dmitri Medvedev reacted with a counter menace. “To Trump’s words that Putin ‘plays with the fire’ and Russia ‘really bad things: I only know a really bad thing – World War II. I hope Trump understands that,” he wrote in English on the platform X.

Medvedev, a politician and former President, which was as soon as thought-about a liberal, has additionally threatened to make use of nuclear weapons a number of occasions for the reason that begin of the battle.

Trump’s criticism of Putin is rising

Trump Had had an unusually harsh criticism of Putin on the weekend as a result of, regardless of the continued discussions about peace, Russia prolonged his air raids to Ukraine. “He got absolutely crazy,” Trump wrote and complained that the air strikes are for no motive. If Putin wished to take the complete Ukraine, this could result in the “Russia’s fall”, Trump wrote.

However, the US President additionally blamed Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj to contribute too little to finish the battle. Trump threatened in opposition to journalists with new sanctions in opposition to Russia.

The Russian authorities initially represented Trump’s criticism of Putin as an overreaction. A Russian authorities spokesman spoke of “emotional overload” in Moscow at first of the dialog course of. Since the start of his second time period within the White House, Trump has been making an attempt as an middleman for peace within the Ukraine to make use of. His predecessor Joe Biden had elevated extra army help from Ukraine.

https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2025-05/donald-trump-warnt-putin-medwedew-ukraine-krieg