Trump slams Putin over aerial attack on Kyiv, cautions Zelensky

President Donald Trump of the United States (U.S.) slams President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin of Russia over deployment of drones and missiles for massive aerial attack on Ukraine.

Trump also cautioned President Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy of Ukraine over his harsh and provocative statements.
Trump warned Zelensky, ‘that he “is doing his country no favours by talking the way he does”.

According to Trump, “Everything out of his mouth causes problems, I don’t like it, and it better stop.”

Trump berating Putin, said, “I’m not happy with what Putin’s doing. He’s killing a lot of people. I don’t know what the hell happened to Putin.”

Trump maintained: “What the hell happened to him? He’s killing a lot of people; absolutely crazy”.

Ukraine air force on Monday, lamented that Russia launched 355 drones and nine cruise missiles against Kyiv between Sunday evening and Monday morning.The Ukrainian air force maintained this was the largest drone attack on Ukraine since Russia’s invasion started in February 2022.Russia’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, noted that this was a “very important moment which is connected to an emotional overload of everyone involved”; he maintained that Putin was taking decisions “necessary for the security” of Russia.

Peskov explained that the latest massive aerial attacks were a response to Ukrainian attacks on what he called Russia’s “social infrastructure”.

The Russian Defense Ministry, on Monday morning, disclosed that air defence systems destroyed 20 Ukrainian drones over several Russian regions.

In the counter-attack, at least 12 people were killed and dozens injured in Ukraine overnight Sunday attack after Russia fired 367 drones and missiles.

National Daily Newspaper gathered that sirens warning of incoming drones and missiles sounded again in many regions of Ukraine early on Monday. Regional authorities were cited to have said that several people across the country were known to have been injured in the fresh attack.

President Volodymyr Zelensky rebuked Russia, saying, “only a sense of total impunity” could allow Russia to “carry out such strikes and continue increasing their scale”.

In a media interaction in New Jersey late on Sunday, Trump had said of Putin: “I’ve known him a long time, always gotten along with him, but he’s sending rockets into cities and killing people, and I don’t like it at all.”

Trump threatened to increase US sanctions on Russia, declaring that the action is: “Absolutely.”

Trump, thereafter, wrote in a post on Truth Social that Putin “has gone absolutely crazy”.

“I’ve always said that he wants all of Ukraine, not just a piece of it, and maybe that’s proving to be right, but if he does, it will lead to the downfall of Russia!”

Credit: BBC, BRICS News