US President Donald Trump has warned that President Vladimir Putin will be respond to Ukraine’s major drone attack on Russian airbases, .Speaking after a phone call with the Russian president.
“President Putin did say, and very strongly, that he will have to respond to the recent attack on the airfields.”
Russian officials declined to confirm this on Wednesday night, but Moscow had earlier said that military options were “on the table” for its response.
President Trump warned in a social media post that the phone call, which lasted more than an hour, would not “lead to immediate peace” between Russia and Ukraine.
Russia’s RIA Novosti, a state-owned news agency, said Putin told Trump that Ukraine has tried to “disrupt” the negotiations and that the government in Kyiv has “essentially turned into a terrorist organisation”.
The two also “exchanged views on the prospects for restoring cooperation between the countries, which has enormous potential,” it said.
Trump told Putin in the call that the US was not warned in advance of the attack, Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov said.
Last week, Trump appeared to set a two-week deadline for Putin, threatening to change how the US is responding to Russia if he believed Putin was still “tapping” him along on peace efforts in Ukraine.
Culled from BBC
