President Trump on Wednesday warned that there can be “severe consequences” for Russia if it didn’t conform to cease its conflict in Ukraine after his assembly with President Vladimir Putin on Friday.
“There will be consequences. I don’t have to say. There will be very severe consequences,” Trump advised reporters throughout an occasion on the Kennedy Middle.
The president beforehand threatened in July to impose sanctions and secondary tariffs on Russia if Putin didn’t agree to finish the conflict inside 50 days, a deadline he later shortened to early August.
However Trump has not adopted by way of on these punishments forward of his deliberate summit with Putin, except for doubling tariffs on India for its buy of Russian oil.
Whereas Trump has at occasions complained about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s strategy to the battle, he has in current weeks expressed growing frustration with Putin as Moscow continues to fireside missiles into Ukraine regardless of the White Home’s push for a ceasefire.
The president has tempered expectations for what is going to come of his assembly with Putin in Alaska on Friday, saying it’s about “setting the table” for a possible follow-up assembly involving each Putin and Zelensky.
“There’s a very good chance that we’re going to have a second meeting that will be more productive than the first,” Trump stated. “Because the first is I’m going to find out where we are and what we’re doing.”
