Ukraine-Russia warfare newest: Trump calls Putin ‘absolutely crazy’ after Moscow launches largest air raid of warfare | EUROtoday

US president Donald Trump fired off a screed in opposition to Vladimir Putin on Truth Social on Sunday night time, saying the Russian president has “gone absolutely CRAZY.”

His assertion on the social media platform adopted transient remarks to reporters earlier than boarding Air Force One, saying he’s “not happy” with Putin and that “he’s killing a lot of people.”

“And I don’t know what the hell happened to Putin,” he informed reporters. “I’ve known him a long time, always gotten along with him, but he’s sending rockets into cities and killing people.”

On Truth Social, he wrote: “He is needlessly killing a lot of people, and I’m not just talking about soldiers. Missiles and drones are being shot into Cities in Ukraine, for no reason whatsoever. I’ve always said that he wants ALL of Ukraine, not just a piece of it, and maybe that’s proving to be right, but if he does, it will lead to the downfall of Russia!”

Mr Trump additionally mentioned that Volodymyr Zelensky is “doing his Country no favors by talking the way he does.”

“Everything out of his mouth causes problems, I don’t like it, and it better stop,” Mr Trump wrote. “This is a War that would never have started if I were President. This is Zelenskyy’s, Putin’s, and Biden’s War, not ‘Trump’s,’ I am only helping to put out the big and ugly fires, that have been started through Gross Incompetence and Hatred.”

Russian forces mounted the most important aerial assault on Ukraine because the begin of the warfare in 2022, killing at the least 12 individuals, together with three youngsters.

Russian forces launched a barrage of 367 drones and missiles at Ukrainian cities in a single day, together with the capital Kyiv, the best variety of strikes in a single night time because the invasion.

The lifeless included three youngsters within the northern area of Zhytomyr, native officers there mentioned.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy known as on the United States, which has taken a softer public line on Russia and its chief, Vladimir Putin, since President Donald Trump took workplace, to talk out.

“The silence of America, the silence of others in the world only encourages Putin,” he wrote on Telegram.

“Every such terrorist Russian strike is reason enough for new sanctions against Russia.”

Russia and Ukraine swapped a whole bunch extra prisoners of warfare within the third and remaining a part of the most important alternate between the international locations.

Russia’s Defence Ministry mentioned either side exchanged 303 troopers, following the discharge of 307 combatants and civilians every on Saturday, and 390 on Friday, the most important whole swap of the warfare.

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed Sunday’s alternate, saying on X that “303 Ukrainian defenders are home.”

Hours earlier, the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and different areas got here beneath an enormous Russian drone-and-missile assault that killed at the least 12 individuals and injured dozens.

Ukrainian officers described it as the most important aerial assault since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.