The US president has promised to take a \u201charsh\u201d position on the issue in the future<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump has said it is not the right time for him to call for a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine.
\nA reporter asked Trump aboard Air Force One whether it was time to press for a ceasefire, noting that a month has passed since his rare face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska.
\n\u201cIt doesn\u2019t feel like it,\u201d Trump said. \u201cBut at the right time, if I have to do it, it will be harsh,\u201d he added.
\nTrump, who has at times criticized both Russia and Ukraine, recently admitted that negotiating an end to the conflict would be harder than he had anticipated.\u00a0Speaking at a press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer during his trip to the UK on Thursday, the US president said that Putin had \u201creally let me down.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Zelensky tells West to put Ukraine first<\/p>\n
Last week, Trump said he would impose additional \u201cmajor sanctions\u201d on Moscow, but only if all NATO members stop purchasing Russian oil. \u201cThis is not TRUMP\u2019S WAR (it would never have started if I was president!), it is Biden\u2019s and Zelenskyy\u2019s WAR,\u201d he wrote on his Truth Social platform, referring to his predecessor and the Ukrainian leader.
\nIn a TV interview which aired in Russia on Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov noted that Trump had shifted \u201cfrom issuing an ultimatum for an unconditional ceasefire to advocating for a long-term, sustainable solution.\u201d
\nMoscow has demanded that Ukraine recognize its new borders, abandon its plan to join NATO in favor of permanent neutrality, and agree to limit its military. Zelensky has rejected these terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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