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Donald Trump Expresses Frustration with Vladimir Putin over Ongoing Ukraine Conflict

Donald Trump Expresses Frustration with Vladimir Putin over Ongoing Ukraine Conflict

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US President Donald Trump expressed his anger and frustration over Russian President Vladimir Putin's comments on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's leadership, stating that he was "pissed off" and considering secondary tariffs on Russian oil if a ceasefire in Ukraine is not reached.

Alexander Stubb
National Coalition Party
1. We in Finland understand not to trust Putin. Don't underestimate his capacity to delay. But we need to call his bluff. It's typically Russian to say, 'yes, Mr President, there's a ceasefire'. And after that, say, 'but the conditions are …' That's not the way in which I think we should negotiate with the Russians. The only thing they understand is power.
2. My message in the conversations I have with the president is that we need a ceasefire, and we need a deadline for the ceasefire, and then we need to pay a price for breaking a ceasefire.
3. April 20 would be a good time for a full ceasefire without any conditions.
4. A ceasefire is about monitoring the line of contact and can entail some kind of coalition of the willing in the air, sea, and then also in land.
5. Anyone who says that a referendum that has been conducted in the Crimean peninsula is somehow valid doesn't know what international relations means. We fundamentally disagree with that approach. I personally will never, ever recognise any territorial acquisition by Russia to Ukraine.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy
Ukraine Government
1. For too long now, America's proposal for an unconditional ceasefire has been on the table without an adequate response from Russia.
2. There could already be a ceasefire if there was real pressure on Russia.
Donald Trump
Republican Party
1. 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 … I am going to put secondary tariffs on oil, on all oil coming out of Russia.
2. That would be that if you buy oil from Russia, you can't do business in the United States, there will be a 25 percent tariff on all — on all oil, a 25- to 50-point tariff on all oil.
3. You could say that I was very angry, pissed off, when Putin said yesterday that — you know, when Putin started getting into [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky's credibility, because that's not going in the right location, you understand?
4. 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 — but if I think it was Russia's fault, I am going to put secondary tariffs on oil, on all oil coming out of Russia.
5. That would be that if you buy oil from Russia, you can't do business in the United States.

Donald Trump Expresses Frustration with Vladimir Putin over Ongoing Ukraine Conflict

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