Putin rejects Trump's Vatican push as Kremlin accuses him of being 'emotional': envoy Kellogg

Russian President Vladimir Putin has rejected President Donald Trump’s propulsion to person the adjacent circular of Russia-Ukraine bid talks astatine the Vatican – an thought the president has floated since the recently appointed American pontiff, Pope Leo XIV, suggested it earlier this month.

Special Envoy Keith Kellogg confirmed the quality portion speaking connected "Fox & Friends" Tuesday greeting erstwhile helium said, "The Russians didn’t privation to spell there" and suggested that alternatively the talks could adjacent beryllium held successful Geneva. 

Though it remains unclear erstwhile different circular of talks volition beryllium held arsenic Russia has yet to hold to the U.S.’s bid connection and its overseas ministry connected Tuesday claimed it was inactive moving connected its memorandum of terms. 

US President Donald Trump steps disconnected Marine One successful Morristown Municipal Airport successful Morristown, New Jersey, May 25, 2025. Trump is returning to the White House aft spending the play successful New Jersey. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russia of "playing games" arsenic it continues to bombard Ukrainian cities with monolithic drone strikes, including a Sunday attack successful which Russia launched 335 drones and 9 cruise missiles astatine civilian targets. 

The onslaught prompted Trump to condemn Putin arsenic "crazy" successful a post connected his societal media platform, Truth Social.

"I've ever had a precise bully narration with Vladimir Putin of Russia, but thing has happened to him," Trump said Sunday. "He has gone perfectly CRAZY! 

He is needlessly sidesplitting a batch of people, and I'm not conscionable talking astir soldiers. Missiles and drones are being changeable into cities successful Ukraine, for nary crushed whatsoever," helium added. 

Overnight, Russia launched its largest aerial battle connected Ukraine since the warfare started. May 26, 2025. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)

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Trump took it 1 measurement further and warned Putin that should helium effort to instrumentality "all of Ukraine…it volition pb to the downfall of Russia."

The Kremlin clapped backmost astatine Trump and accused him of being "emotional."

When asked astir the president’s comments, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, "We are truly grateful to the Americans and to President Trump personally for their assistance successful organizing and launching this negotiation process.

"This is simply a precise important moment, which is associated, of course, with the affectional overload of everyone perfectly and with affectional reactions," helium added, according to a Reuters report. 

Relatives amusement photos of missing soldiers to POWs who came backmost from Russian captivity during an speech of prisoners betwixt Russia and Ukraine, successful Chernyhiv region, Ukraine, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

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But Trump didn’t bounds his verbal onslaught to Putin successful his societal media station and claimed Zelenskyy was "doing his state nary favors by talking the mode helium does."

"Everything retired of his rima causes problems, I don’t similar it, and it amended stop," helium added, though it is unclear what Zelenskyy said that prompted this reaction.