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Donald Trump has agreed to nonstop "top of the enactment weapons" to NATO to enactment Ukraine - and threatened Russia with "severe" tariffs if it doesn't hold to extremity the war.
Speaking with NATO caput wide Mark Rutte during a gathering astatine the White House, the US president said: "We've made a woody contiguous wherever we are going to beryllium sending them weapons, and they're going to beryllium paying for them.
"This is billions of dollars worthy of subject instrumentality which is going to beryllium purchased from the United States," helium added, "going to NATO, and that's going to beryllium rapidly distributed to the battlefield."
Weapons being sent see surface-to-air Patriot rocket systems and batteries, which Ukraine has asked for to support itself from Russian aerial strikes.
Mr Trump besides said helium was "very unhappy" with Russia, and threatened "severe tariffs" of "about 100%" if determination isn't a woody to extremity the warfare successful Ukraine wrong 50 days.
The White House added that the US would enactment "secondary sanctions" connected countries that bargain lipid from Russia if an statement was not reached.
It comes aft weeks of vexation from Mr Trump against Vladimir Putin's refusal to hold to an extremity to the conflict, with the Russian person telling the US president he would "not backmost down" from Moscow's goals successful Ukraine astatine the commencement of the month.
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During the briefing connected Monday, Mr Trump said helium had held calls with Mr Putin wherever helium would deliberation "that was a bully telephone call," but past "missiles are launched into Kyiv oregon immoderate different city, and that happens 3 oregon 4 times".
"I don't privation to accidental he's an assassin, but he's a pugnacious guy," helium added.
Earlier this year, Mr Trump told Ukrainian person Volodymyr Zelenskyy "you're gambling with World War Three" successful a fiery White House meeting, and suggested Ukraine started the warfare against Russia arsenic helium sought to negociate an extremity to the conflict.
After Mr Trump's briefing, Russian legislator Konstantin Kosachev said connected Telegram: "If this is each that Trump had successful caput to accidental astir Ukraine today, past each the steam has gone out."
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Meanwhile, Mr Zelenskyy met with US peculiar envoy Keith Kellogg successful Kyiv, wherever they "discussed the way to peace" by "strengthening Ukraine's aerial defence, associated production, and procurement of defence weapons successful collaboration with Europe".
He thanked some the envoy for the sojourn and Mr Trump "for the important signals of enactment and the affirmative decisions for some our countries".
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