US president Donald Trump has spoken out after Russia launched its largest aerial bombardment on Ukraine since the war began in 2022.
“I’m not happy with what Putin’s doing,” he told reporters. “He’s killing a lot of people and I don’t know what the hell happened to Putin. I’ve known him a long time, always gotten along with him, but he’s sending rockets into cities and killing people and I don’t like it at all.”
The president threatened Russia with more sanctions, just as Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky revealed a new package of sanctions.
This comes as US special envoy general Keith Kellogg has called for a ceasefire and said that the “indiscriminate killing of women and children at night in their homes is a clear violation of the 1977 Geneva Peace Protocols designed to protect innocents.”
Ukraine said that 12 people died in the latest aerial strike on the country, including three children.
The drone attacks have intensified between Russia and Ukraine this week as Russia and Ukraine exchanged prisoners as part of a negotiated exchange of a thousand citizens from each side.
