Donald Trump claims to be “very angry” with Vladimir Putin on Ukraine | Donald Trump

Donald Trump said he was “pissed off” with Vladimir Putin For his approach to a ceased fire in Ukraine and threatened to collect the rates on Moscow oil exports if the Russian leader does not accept a respite within a month.

The President of the United States indicated that he would have a 25% or 50% rate that would have influenced the countries that acquire Russian oil in a telephone interview with NBC News, during which he also threatened to bomb Iran and did not exclude the use of force in Greenland.

“If Russia and I are not able to make an agreement to stop the bloodshed UkraineAnd if I think it was Russia’s fault, which may not be, but if I think it was Russia, I will put the secondary oil rates on all the oil that will come out of Russia, “said Trump.

“It would be that if you buy oil from Russia, you cannot do business in the United States. There will be a 25% rate on everything … Out of all oil, a rate from 25 to 50 points over the whole oil.”

The abrupt change of direction came after Putin had tried to attack the legitimacy of Volodymyr Zelenskyy Friday, Trump said. By appearing on Russian television, Putin had suggested that Ukraine could be placed under a temporary guidance government not to organize new elections before negotiating a peace agreement.

Trump previously defined the Ukrainian president a dictator, but on Sunday he said: “I was very angry, pissed off” when Putin “started entering Zelenskyy’s credibility, why isn’t he going to the right position, do you understand?”

He said “new leadership means that you will not have an agreement for a long time, right” and that he wanted to exercise pressure on the Kremlin, which has raised a series of questions about a peace agreement and so far has accepted only a ceased for maritime fire and energy.

Trump repeated that “if an agreement is not done, and if I think it was Russia’s fault, I will put secondary penalties to Russia”, but then he indicated that he would quickly get back if there were progress on a ceased fire.

“The anger quickly dissipates” if Putin “does the right thing,” said Trump, adding that he expected to speak with his Russian counterpart this week.

Later, speaking with a group of journalists, Trump indicated similar rates at Venezuela, who said that “he had a very strong impact”.

“You know that every ship has just come out and they left. Many of them have left. They dropped the pipes in the ocean and went away,” he said.

Asked by the Guardian if his relationship with Putin had fallen to the lowest point, Trump replied: “No, I don’t think so, I think he will return to his word … I was disappointed in a certain way. Some of the things he said on the last day or two who had to do with Zelenskyy … he should make a deal with him, who you like, you don’t like it. So. So. So. So. So. So.

The President of the United States also used the previous NBC interview to say to Iran that if “they do not make an agreement” to curb their nuclear weapons program, “there will be bombings. It will bomb artists of the caliber they have never seen before”. Officials of both countries have been engaged in negotiations, he added.

He also mentioned new economic penalties as an alternative. “There is the possibility that, if they do not make an agreement, that I will make the secondary rates on them,” said Trump. “I’m thinking of wearing secondary rates on Iran until an agreement is signed.”

Secondary rates are a new idea. The United States introduced a 25% rate last week on countries that buy crude oil and liquid fuels from Venezuela, the largest of which is China, after Trump accused the Latin American country of having sent criminals and band members in the United States under the coverage of migrants.

Russian oil exports are already subject to a series of sanctions by the United States, the United Kingdom, the EU and other G7 countries, leaving China and India as two major buyers, according to the International Energy Agency. What is not yet clear is if the proposed measures would be effective once you enter into force.

Finland indicated that it may have played a role in Trump’s intervention. A day before the interview, Trump spent time with his Finnish counterpart, Alexander Stubub, in his Mar-A-Lago resort in Florida. The two men had breakfast and lunch and played golf during an unofficial visit, said Stubb.

“My message in the conversations I have with the president is that we need a fire and we need a deadline for the ceasefire, and therefore we have to pay a price to break the fire,” Stubbs said to The Guardian.

“So, number one, we need a date of ceased the fire, and I would prefer that it is Easter, let’s say, April 20, when President Trump has been in charge for three months. If since then it has not been accepted or is broken by Russia, there must be consequences. And those consequences should be penalties, maximum sanctions and we continue the pressure until 20 ° and then we will see what happens.”

During a previous interview with NBC on Saturday, Trump said: “We will have Greenland. Yes, 100%” and he claimed that while there is a “good chance that we could do it without military force … I don’t get anything from the table”.

During the election campaign, Trump said he could put an end to the Ukrainian war within 24 hours, comments that more recently said they were “a little sarcastic”. This turned out to be elusive and its tactics to force Russia and Ukraine to agree on a ceased have so far focused on the bullying and pressurization of Kyiv.

Trump and his vice -president, JD Vance, reproached Zelenskyy at the Oval Office a month ago, who was followed by Washington who cut intelligence and military aid. Kyiv then recorded the 30 -day fire at the beginning of a ceased if the Kremlin would reciprocate in exchange for intelligence and aid to be restored.

Putin declared at the beginning of this month that although it was in favor of a cease, “there are shades” and any fierce in the fighting should “remove the causes of the root of this crisis”, a radical but vague question.

The Russian president and his allies asked for the demilitarization of Ukraine, insisted that the presence of western troops such as pecekeeper would have been unacceptable and requested the full annexation of four regions, three of which only partially occupies.

Two people were killed and 25 were injured in the second city of Ukraine, Kharkiv, in Russian attacks on Saturday evening and Sunday morning. A military hospital was among the struck buildings. The general staff of Ukraine denounced what he said was a “deliberate and targeted bombing”, a rare recognition of military victims.

On Sunday Trump also told journalists that the president of Ukraine was trying to retire from the mineral agreement.

“And if it does, it has problems. Big, big problems. We have made an agreement on rare earth and is now saying, well, you know, I want to renegotiate the agreement,” said Trump. “He wants to be a member of NATO. Well, he would never have been NATO Member. He understands it. So if he is trying to renegotiate the agreement, he has great problems.”

Last week Zelenskyy told journalists that the United States were “constantly” changing the terms of a proposed mineral agreement, but it didn’t want Washington to think it was against it.

Trump’s interventions follow a difficult week for the White House, during which the high administration officials were criticized for discussed attacks on the Houthi rebels in Yemen on the signal messaging appwhich is not authorized by the Pentagon.

The highly delicate discussion, which included bombing plans, transpired because a journalist from the Atlantic magazine was erroneously added to the chat by the United States National Security Consultant, Mike Waltz.