LONDON — President Donald Trump once more on Monday expressed frustration with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as Russian strikes on Ukraine continued regardless of White Home efforts to dealer a peace deal between the warring neighbors.
“Each dialog I’ve with him is an effective dialog,” the president advised reporters of Putin throughout an Oval Workplace govt order signing occasion. “After which sadly, a bomb is loaded up into Kyiv or someplace, after which I get very indignant about it.”
Trump has repeatedly admonished Putin for Russia’s nightly strikes on Ukrainian cities. Nonetheless, the president advised reporters he was nonetheless hopeful of progress in the direction of a peace deal.
“I believe we will get the conflict carried out,” Trump mentioned, although added, “You by no means know what is going on to occur in a conflict. Unusual issues occur in conflict. The truth that [Putin] went to Alaska, our nation, I believe, was an enormous assertion that he desires to get it carried out.”
Firefighters work on the website of the Russian missile strike within the village of Sknyliv on the outskirts of Lviv, Ukraine, on Aug. 21, 2025.
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Each Russia and Ukraine continued long-range strikes by means of the weekend and into Monday. On Tuesday, Ukraine’s air power mentioned Russia launched 59 drones into the nation in a single day, of which 47 had been shot down or suppressed.
The air power reported impacts of 12 drones throughout 9 places.
Russia’s Protection Ministry, in the meantime, mentioned its forces downed no less than 51 Ukrainian drones in a single day into Tuesday morning, two which had been en path to Moscow.
Following in-person conferences with Putin in Alaska and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — plus a number of European leaders — in Washington, D.C., earlier this month, Trump raised the hope of an imminent bilateral assembly between the Russian and Ukrainian presidents.
Zelenskyy has repeatedly expressed willingness to attend such a gathering. However Putin and his officers have constantly dodged the proposal.
“Possibly they may, perhaps they will not,” the president advised ABC Information Monday of the potential for the 2 males to satisfy. Trump mentioned he had spoken to Putin since Zelenskyy’s go to to Washington, however declined to debate the specifics of the decision.
Requested if he would act if the bilateral assembly doesn’t materialize, Trump refused to element attainable penalties however mentioned he might act “over the following week or two.”
U.S. peace efforts continued on Monday, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio talking with European counterparts and Trump’s Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg touring to Kyiv to satisfy with Zelenskyy.
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend a press convention following their assembly to barter an finish to the conflict in Ukraine, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, in Anchorage, Alaska, August 15, 2025.
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For each U.S. officers, the query of future safety ensures for Ukraine to forestall future Russian aggression was a key matter of dialogue.
Ukrainian International Minister Andrii Sybiha took half within the name with Rubio. “I reiterated Ukraine’s place that safety ensures should be concrete, legally binding and efficient,” he wrote on X after. “They need to be multidimensional, together with navy, diplomatic, authorized and different ranges.”
Zelenskyy mentioned his assembly with Kellogg was “productive,” once more expressing his due to Trump’s efforts to dealer a deal and his willingness to lend U.S. backing to safety ensures.
Kellogg, in the meantime, mentioned the U.S. facet is “working very, very arduous” to get “to a place the place, within the close to time period, we’ve got, with a scarcity of a greater time period, safety ensures. That is a piece in progress.”
ABC Information’ Shannon Ok. Kingston, Rachel Scott, Lalee Ibssa and Will Gretsky contributed to this report.
