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President Donald Trump told journalists that helium was "not happy" with Russia's caller large-scale onslaught against Ukraine portion speaking to the property connected Sunday.
Speaking to reporters astatine Morristown Municipal Airport successful New Jersey, Trump accused Putin of "killing a batch of people" successful the attack, which was launched connected Sunday afternoon.
"I'm not blessed with what Putin is doing," Trump explained. "He's killing a batch of people, and I don't cognize what the hellhole happened to Putin."
"I've known him a agelong time, ever gotten on with him, but he's sending rockets into cities and sidesplitting people, and I don't similar it astatine all," helium added.
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President Donald Trump speaks to journalists earlier boarding Air Force One from Morristown Municipal Airport successful Morristown, New Jersey, May 25, 2025. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
Trump said that Putin was "shooting rockets into Kyiv and different cities" successful the mediate of negotiations.
"I don't similar what Putin is doing. Not adjacent a small bit," the president emphasized. "He's sidesplitting people. And thing happened to this guy."
Trump's comments came aft Russian forces launched hundreds of drones and missiles astatine Ukrainian cities overnight. The attack, which has been called the largest aerial onslaught of the warfare truthful far, targeted the Ukrainian superior of Kyiv.
Ukrainian officials said that astatine slightest 12 radical were killed and dozens much were injured.
President Donald Trump walks to talk to journalists earlier boarding Air Force One from Morristown Municipal Airport successful Morristown, New Jersey, May 25, 2025. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
Though past strikes person proven much deadly, the onslaught is the largest-scale aerial battle of the warfare successful presumption of the fig of weapons: 298 drones and 69 missiles were launched.
In a station connected Telegram, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for an planetary effect to the attack.
"The soundlessness of America, the soundlessness of others successful the satellite lone encourages Putin," helium wrote connected Telegram. "Every specified violent Russian onslaught is crushed capable for caller sanctions against Russia."
Trump expanded connected his comments aboriginal connected Sunday, penning connected Truth Social that Putin "has gone perfectly CRAZY!" portion besides criticizing Zelenskyy.
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President Donald Trump steps disconnected Marine One successful Morristown Municipal Airport successful Morristown, New Jersey, May 25, 2025. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
"I’ve ever said that [Putin] wants ALL of Ukraine, not conscionable a portion of it, and possibly that’s proving to beryllium right, but if helium does, it volition pb to the downfall of Russia!" the societal media station read. "Likewise, President Zelenskyy is doing his Country nary favors by talking the mode helium does. Everything retired of his rima causes problems, I don’t similar it, and it amended stop."
"This is simply a War that would ne'er person started if I were President. This is Zelenskyy’s, Putin’s, and Biden’s War, not ‘Trump’s,’ I americium lone helping to enactment retired the large and disfigured fires, that person been started done Gross Incompetence and Hatred," Trump concluded.
Reuters and Fox News Digital's Brooke Curto and Kyle Schmidbauer contributed to this report.
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