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 instructed reporters of Putin throughout an Oval Workplace government 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 instructed reporters he was nonetheless hopeful of progress in direction of a peace deal.
“I believe we’ll get the struggle finished,” Trump stated, although added, “You by no means know what is going on to occur in a struggle. Unusual issues occur in struggle. The truth that [Putin] went to Alaska, our nation, I believe, was a giant assertion that he needs to get it finished.”
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 the weekend and into Monday. On Tuesday, Ukraine’s air drive stated Russia launched 59 drones into the nation in a single day, of which 47 have been shot down or suppressed.
The air drive reported impacts of 12 drones throughout 9 places.
Russia’s Protection Ministry, in the meantime, stated its forces downed no less than 51 Ukrainian drones in a single day into Tuesday morning, two which have 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.
“Perhaps they may, perhaps they will not,” the president instructed ABC Information Monday of the potential for the 2 males to fulfill. Trump stated 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 doable penalties however stated 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 fulfill with Zelenskyy.
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend a press convention following their assembly to barter an finish to the struggle 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 stop future Russian aggression was a key subject of debate.
Ukrainian Overseas 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 stated 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, stated the U.S. facet is “working very, very arduous” to get “to a place the place, within the close to time period, now we have, with an absence of a greater time period, safety ensures. That is a piece in progress.”
ABC Information’ Shannon Okay. Kingston, Rachel Scott, Lalee Ibssa and Will Gretsky contributed to this report.
