A furious Donald Trump has slammed Vladimir Putin for talking “bullshit” about the Ukraine war and making “meaningless” promises.
The savage attack comes as Trump vowed to send more weapons to Ukraine as he appears to be getting fed-up with the Russian tyrant.
“We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” Trump told reporters during a televised cabinet meeting at the White House.
“He’s very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.”
Trump reiterated that he was “very unhappy” with Putin since their phone call last week made no progress on the Ukraine peace deal – something the US president has pushed for since returning to power.
But Putin has not sought peace and is instead steadily increasing his overnight bombing raids – which could hitting 1,000 per day.
Trump’s criticism of Putin came a day after he said he would send more weapons to Ukraine – a sweeping reversal of Washington’s announcement last week that it was halting some arms shipments.
The White House confirmed on July 1 that shipments of certain air defence missiles and other precision bombs to Ukraine had been stopped because of concerns about dwindling weapons stockpiles.
However, Trump reversed the decision, adding: “We’re going to send some more weapons.
“We have to. They have to be able to defend themselves.They’re getting hit very hard now.”
“We’re going to have to send more weapons, defensive weapons, primarily.”
