Trump "not happy" with Russian strikes on Kyiv: "Vladimir, STOP!"

Deadly Russian onslaught successful Ukraine

Trump slams Putin aft deadly Russian onslaught successful Ukraine 03:13

President Trump posted connected societal media Thursday greeting to explicit he's "not happy" with the Russian strikes connected the Ukrainian superior Kyiv, calling the strikes "very atrocious timing" amid bid negotiations and telling Russian President Vladimir Putin to "STOP!"

Overnight, Russia attacked Kyiv with an hourslong barrage of missiles and drones, sidesplitting astatine slightest 8 radical and injuring implicit 70 successful apt the deadliest battle connected Ukraine's superior since July. The strikes came arsenic bid talks person appeared to stall. 

"I americium not blessed with the Russian strikes connected KYIV. Not necessary, and precise atrocious timing," Mr. Trump wrote connected his societal media tract Truth Social. "Vladimir, STOP! 5000 soldiers a week are dying. Lets get the Peace Deal DONE!"

Mr. Trump has insisted helium believes Russia wants peace, contempt Moscow's continued assaults connected Ukraine, much than 3 years into Russia's war. 

Although Mr. Trump said helium would halt the warfare earlier taking office, his medication has truthful acold been incapable to broker a bid deal. And Mr. Trump has expressed his increasing impatience with some Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Putin. 

Mr. Trump blasted Zelenskyy connected Wednesday, accusing him of prolonging the "killing field" by refusing to see surrendering Russian-occupied Crimea arsenic portion of a imaginable bid deal. 

"His patience is wearing precise thin," White House property caput Karoline Leavitt told reporters Wednesday. 

Vice President JD Vance told reporters connected Wednesday that the U.S. has "issued a precise explicit connection to some the Russians and the Ukrainians, and it's clip for them to either accidental yes, oregon for the United States to locomotion distant from this process." 

In effect to Mr. Trump's disapproval of him implicit Crimea, Zelenskyy posted a 2018 connection from Mr. Trump's then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo successful which Pompeo said it was U.S. argumentation to not admit Russia's attempted annexation of Crimea.