US President Donald Trump said Friday he would make an “important” decision in two weeks on Ukraine peace efforts — specifying that Moscow could face massive sanctions or he might do nothing.<\/p>\n
Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that he was “not happy” about a Russian strike Thursday that hit a US-owned factory in Ukraine “and I’m not happy about anything having to do with that war.”<\/p>\n
But he said he wanted to see whether Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky would meet first.<\/p>\n
“I think I’ll know. I think I’ll know the attitude of Russia, and, frankly, of Ukraine. It takes two,” Trump said when asked what he would do at the end of a two-week timeframe he set for assessing the state of peace talks.<\/p>\n
“Then I’m going to make a decision as to what we do and it’s going to be a very important decision,” he said.<\/p>\n
“That’s whether or not it’s massive sanctions or massive tariffs or both. Or do we do nothing and say it’s your fight.”<\/p>\n
Trump — who showed off a picture of him and Putin at their recent Alaska summit, that he said had been sent by the Kremlin leader — has repeatedly announced timescales of around two weeks for decisions on Ukraine and other issues. Many of those deadlines have failed to materialize.<\/p>\n
Russia on Friday ruled out an immediate meeting with Zelensky, despite Trump saying on Monday after meeting with the Ukrainian and European leaders that he was arranging a summit.<\/p>\n
Trump said Friday that setting up a Zelensky-Putin summit was as hard as mixing “oil and vinegar.”<\/p>\n
“We’re going to see if Putin and Zelensky will be working together. You know, it’s like oil and vinegar, a little bit. They don’t get along too well, for obvious reasons,” he told reporters.<\/p>\n
Trump added “we’ll see” if he would need to attend any such meeting.<\/p>\n
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