Trump tears into Putin saying he’s ‘not happy’ about status of peace talks

President Donald Trump tore into Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, saying he’s ‘not happy’ with the Russian leader. 

Putin initially appeared amenable to Trump’s plan for a 30-day ceasefire with Ukraine in order to move the peace talks forward. But, a few days after the agreement, Russian forces dropped bombs on Kyiv.

Trump, who is pushing a peace plan some see as favorable to the Kremlin, is showing his impatience as Russia drags its feet.

‘We are getting to a point where some decisions are going to have to be made. I’m not happy about it. I’m not happy about it,’ he told reporters in the Oval Office.

Trump heads to the Middle East on Monday where he had high hopes of signing a peace deal. That is not on the agenda for his time in Saudi Arabia. 

The president’s comments come as his advisers also had harsh words for the Russian leader and former President Joe Biden blasted Trump for his handling of the war in Ukraine.

President Donald Trump expressed unhappiness with Vladimir Putin

Biden accused Trump and his administration of ‘modern-day appeasement’ in its dealings with Russia.

‘I just don’t understand how people think that if we allow a dictator, a thug, to decide he’s going to take significant portions of land that aren’t his and that’s gonna satisfy him, I don’t quite understand,’ Biden told the BBC.

‘It is modern-day appeasement,’ he said, referring to the policy some nations  toward Nazi Germany in the 1930s, where leaders hoped to avoid a war if Adolf Hitler was allowed to make some territorial gains.

Trump has pushed Ukraine hard to agree to peace, saying he thinks it should give up its Crimea territory to Moscow.

The president has said repeatedly he wants the killing in the war to stop.

Meanwhile, Vice President JD Vance said that Russia was ‘asking for too much’ in its initial peace offer. 

He did not elaborate on the terms. 

‘I wouldn´t say that the Russians are uninterested in bringing this thing to a resolution,’ Vance said. ‘What I would say is right now: the Russians are asking for a certain set of requirements, a certain set of concessions in order to end the conflict. We think they´re asking for too much,’ he said.

Trump, when asked later Wednesday about the vice president’s comments, told reporters at the White House, ‘Well, it´s possible that´s right.’

Vance said the Trump administration appreciated the Ukrainian President Zelensky was willing to honor the terms of the cease fire but he also indicated the time for that has moved on. 

He said that Russian and Ukrainian leaders need to sit down directly to negotiate a long-term peace agreement. 

‘What the Russians have said is, ‘A 30-day ceasefire is not in our strategic interests.; So we´ve tried to move beyond the obsession with the 30-day ceasefire and more on the, what would a long-term settlement look like,’ Vance said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government places the blame on Ukraine

Vice President JD Vance blasted Putin’s demands for peace with Ukraine

And U.S. envoy Keith Kellogg told Fox News that Putin is the obstacle in a comprehensive ceasefire.

‘I think we’re close. The one man who can deliver it is President Trump. As long as Putin agrees. Right now, probably, our impediment in progress is the President of Russia not agreeing to it,’ Kellogg said. 

But the Kremlin is fighting back against criticism.

Russia has never opposed a ceasefire in Ukraine, foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told media in the country.

‘The only obstacle to the ceasefire is Kyiv, which violates agreements and is unwilling to seriously discuss the terms of a long-term ceasefire,’ Zakharova said.

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