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Trump: If Russia does not move towards peace, we will declare economic war

2025-08-27 10:35:01Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Trump: If Russia does not move towards peace, we will declare economic war
Donald Trump

United States President Donald Trump has again dismissed the possibility of any meeting soon between Russian and Ukrainian leaders, and has also spoken about the possibility of new sanctions against Moscow, although he said that the Ukrainian side is also to blame.

"I want the war to end," Trump told reporters Tuesday at the White House.

"What I have in mind is very, very serious, if I have to do it. But, I want to see [the war] end," he stressed.

"We want it to end. We have economic sanctions," he warned.

Trump added: "It won't be a world war, but it will be an economic war. An economic war will be bad, and it will be bad for Russia, and I don't want that."

Trump has long used the threat of economic sanctions or high tariffs against other countries in international affairs.

He has warned but has not yet imposed economic measures against Moscow, although the US and the West have imposed a series of severe sanctions on Russia since it began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

"I think, in many ways, he [Russian President Vladimir Putin] is there. Sometimes he is there and [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky is not there," he underlined.

"I have to have both at the same time," Trump added after a televised cabinet meeting that lasted three hours and 16 minutes.

"Zelensky is not completely innocent either. I get along very well with him now, but we have a much different relationship because we are not giving a penny to Ukraine now," Trump said, referring to a deal where NATO members buy American weapons for use by Kiev.

Trump also hinted at the possibility of measures against Kiev, but did not provide details.

"I have a very good relationship with Putin. If I can save thousands of people from death through sanctions on Russia or Ukraine or whoever, that's good," he added.

When asked about Putin's refusal to meet face-to-face with Zelensky and the Kremlin's doubts about the Ukrainian leader's "legitimacy," Trump said: "It doesn't matter what [the Russians] say. They're all putting on a show. They're all clowns."

Russia has continued its full-scale invasion of Ukraine without interruption after Trump's meetings with Putin in Alaska on August 15, and with Zelensky and European leaders at the White House three days later.

Trump, who has sought to broker an end to the war since taking office in January, used those meetings to arrange a face-to-face meeting between Putin and Zelensky, who have not met since 2019.

Zelensky - who has requested such a meeting with Putin - said on August 26 that Turkey, Gulf countries or European states could serve as hosts for any meeting he might hold with Putin.

However, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told NBC television last week that "the agenda for such a meeting is not ready at all."

Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, then said he would soon meet with Ukrainian representatives in New York.

"I'm meeting with the Ukrainians this week... and that's a big signal," he told Fox News. "We talk to the Russians every day."

Meanwhile, Ukrainian military leaders briefed Zelensky on developments in the east of the country, where Russia has scored battlefield victories in recent months against the battered and poorly equipped Ukrainian army.

“Our main attention is now focused mainly on Pokrovsk, Dobropillia, Novopavlivsk, Kupiansk, as well as the Zaporizhia directions,” Ukraine’s top military commander, General Oleksandr Syrskiy, wrote on Telegram.

Syrskiy reported that “we have positive trends in the border areas of the Sumy and Kharkiv regions,” although claims from the battlefield cannot always be immediately verified.

Kiev has urgently requested more weapons from the West amid concerns that, even after the last two summits in the United States, Russia is “not interested” in peace, a senior Zelensky adviser told Current Time on August 25.

The United States and European countries have given Ukraine billions of dollars worth of aid and military equipment since the start of the full-scale invasion, yet Trump has pressured Europe to shoulder most of the burden./REL


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