Russia says it needs time to ‘analyse’ Trump’s Ukraine announcements

Kremlin says US president’s caller statements were ‘very serious’ and that it needs ‘time to analyse’ remarks.

The Kremlin has said that US President Donald Trump’s caller statements, including a threat to enforce sanctions connected Russia’s trading partners, are superior and necessitate clip to assess.

Amid increasing vexation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump connected Monday announced caller deliveries of weapons, including Patriot rocket systems, to Ukraine via NATO and said that buyers of Russian exports could look severe tariffs if Moscow fails to hold to a bid woody wrong 50 days, signalling a large argumentation displacement successful Washington.

“The US president’s statements are precise serious. Some of them are addressed personally to President Putin,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters successful Moscow connected Tuesday.

“We surely request clip to analyse what was said successful Washington. And if and erstwhile President Putin deems it necessary, helium volition decidedly comment.”

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev mocked Trump’s announcement, calling it a “theatrical ultimatum” and saying that “Russia didn’t care”. Medvedev, who present serves arsenic lawman seat of Russia’s Security Council, has often issued strident remarks passim the war.

Russian Senator Konstantin Kosachev was likewise dismissive. Writing connected Telegram, helium said Trump’s announcement would person nary interaction connected nationalist sentiment successful Russia and claimed the United States was mounting a trap for Europe — forcing NATO states to wage for weapons that would chiefly payment the US arms industry.

“Only the American military-industrial analyzable volition nett from this,” Kosachev said.

Olesia Horiainova, co-founder of the Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Center, expressed anticipation that the US would proceed to merchantability weaponry to Ukraine and called for “harsher” sanctions connected Russia, which, she said, “is showing nary signs of being interested” successful “stopping the war”.

She told Al Jazeera that US sanctions connected purchasers of Russian lipid could person a large interaction connected Russia’s economy.

“Every dollar that is enactment into Russia’s system close present is being spent connected the warfare – so, yes, if the sanctions volition beryllium imposed yet connected Russia successful 50 days, oregon earlier hopefully, it volition consciousness that hugely.”

Europeans committedness to enactment weapons shipments

Several European countries pledged to enactment Trump’s connection to nonstop much weapons to Ukraine.

Denmark’s Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said Copenhagen would “do its part” to concern Patriot systems for Ukraine, though helium gave nary specifics. “It seems the US is yet connected the close side,” Rasmussen told reporters successful Brussels.

The Netherlands and Sweden besides said they were exploring ways to enactment the initiative. Sweden’s Defence Minister Pal Jonson welcomed Trump’s unit connected Russia and confirmed Stockholm would lend to the transportation of weapons, though details remained unclear.

Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys said the announcements showed that “leadership is erstwhile again coming from the US.”

EU sanctions bundle stalls

But successful a motion that European unity regarding Russia’s warfare connected Ukraine remains fragile, the European Union’s planned 18th sanctions bundle stalled connected Tuesday aft Slovakia requested a hold successful the vote. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who visited the Kremlin past year, said the determination reflected home governmental concerns implicit state supplies amid a looming prohibition connected Russian imports from 2028.

EU overseas argumentation main Kaja Kallas voiced vexation astatine the setback. “I’m truly bittersweet the sanctions didn’t get approved,” she said. “But I anticipation they volition beryllium passed tomorrow.”

Kallas added that the EU welcomes Trump’s committedness to defending Ukraine but said Washington indispensable besides “share the burden”.

In a abstracted move, the European Council imposed plus freezes connected 5 Russian judicial officials accused of persecuting absorption fig Alexei Gorinov, citing quality rights violations.

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