Trump confirms deliveries for Ukraine, threatens Putin with tariffs – summary
Jakub Krupa
Well, for once, that was a “major statement” from Trump, as advertised, as he spoke with the media alongside Nato secretary general Mark Rutte.
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Trump said he was “very, very unhappy” with Russia, and threatened with secondary tariffs of up to 100% if there is no progress on peace deal within 50 days (17:17).
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Trump said “it’s got to stop,” with criticising “all talk” from Putin as Russia continued its attacks on Ukrainian cities (17:28, 17:46)
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Trump confirmed a deal with Nato allies, mostly from Europe, on new weapon deliveries that will help Ukraine (17:21), including the much-needed Patriot missiles (17:24), which will be sent “within days” (17:35) and paid by allies.
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Trump said of Putin: ““I don’t want to say he’s an assassin, but he’s a tough guy.”
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Rutte said Ukraine will “get its hands on really massive numbers of military equipment” for air defence and on missiles to fight back against Russia, and urged Putin to take Trump’s warning seriously (17:27).
Separately, Trump suggested he was still open for trade talks with the EU, saying the bloc’s representatives were “coming over” soon (17:39).
Key events
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Trump confirms deliveries for Ukraine, threatens Putin with tariffs – summary
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‘Talk doesn’t mean anything,’ Trump criticises Putin about their calls
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Patriot batteries to be sent within days, Trump says, as he hopes for ‘impact’ on Russia’s stance in talks
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‘It’s got to stop’, Trump tells Putin, as he warns about biting tariffs
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Russia’s Putin needs to take Trump’s warning seriously, Rutte says
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Ukraine will get ‘massive numbers’ of military equipment under deal with US, Rutte says
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Trump confirms deal for ‘greatest military equipment’ for Nato, Ukraine
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Towards the end of the briefing, Trump talks about some domestic issues and repeatedly praises his administration.
At the very end, he adds a line of praise for Rutte calling him “a star” and that’s it, the briefing is concluded.
‘Talk doesn’t mean anything,’ Trump criticises Putin about their calls
Trump gets asked how far he is prepared to go to settle this war.
He stresses that “there are no Americans that are dying in it.”
But he suggests the need to get involved as he says “having a strong Europe is a very good thing.”
Trump says he spoke with “Germany and with most of the larger countries.”
“They are really enthusiastic about this, they want [this war to end], and they’re willing to go very far,” he says.
Trump says he speaks with Putin “a lot,” but adds:
“I speak to him a lot about getting this thing done, and I always hang up and say, ‘Well, that was a nice phone call’, and then missiles are launched into Kyiv or some other city.
… And after that happens three or four times, you say, the talk doesn’t mean anything.
My conversations with them are always very pleasant. … Very lovely conversation. And then the missiles go off that night. I go home, I tell the first lady, I spoke to Vladimir today, we had a wonderful conversation. And she said, Oh really, another city was just hit.”
He says of Putin “I don’t want to say he’s an assassin, but he’s a tough guy” as he says he “fooled” previous US presidents.
Trump says Russia is “potentially such a great country to be wasting so many people on this, and the money.”
He says he hopes Putin will go for a “fair deal,” claiming “he knows what a fair deal is.”
Rutte jumps in to pray Trump again and again.
Trump says always ready to talk trade, EU ‘coming over’
Trump also gets asked about EU-US trade deal.
He says he is always ready to talk.
“We’re always open to talk. We are open to talk, including to Europe. In fact, they’re coming over. They’d like to talk.”
Trump says he wants to ‘finish’ war in Ukraine
Trump acknowledges that “Europe has a lot of spirit for this war,” something he says he didn’t appreciate at the beginning.
“They really think it’s a very, very important thing to do, or they wouldn’t be doing… Look, they’re agreeing to just, you know, they’re paying for everything,” he says.
“I do want to make one statement again. I said it before this is not Trump’s war. We’re here to try and get it finished and settled,” he says,
Patriot batteries to be sent within days, Trump says, as he hopes for ‘impact’ on Russia’s stance in talks
Rutte pointedly criticises Russia for attacks that are not conducted because of military goals, but “just creating panic” by attacking Ukrainian towns, and Trump concurs.
He then repeatedly praises Nato after his recent experience of attending the alliance’s summit in The Hague, the Netherlands.
He explains:
“We had a couple of days of very intensive talks. And they’re great people. They’re leaders of countries.
Many of them great countries. Some of them smaller countries. But for the most part, that’s a very solid, strong countries and very successful. Some of them are among the most successful countries in the world.”
He says he hopes the decision will have an impact on Russia and Putin.
Rutte intervenes to stress that Ukraine wants a peace deal.
Trump says it continues to be a “very deadly war,” and that he thought “we had a deal on Ukraine about four times,” but ultimately that didn’t work out.
“But it just keeps going on and on and on, and every night a lot of people are dying,” he says.
He confirms the Patriot batteries will be sent “within days.”
‘It’s got to stop’, Trump tells Putin, as he warns about biting tariffs
Trump also repeated his warning that US tariffs would be “biting” and hit the Russian economy.
He says:
“I hope we don’t get to the point where we do, but I’ve been hearing so much talk. It’s all talk.
It’s all talk, and then missiles go into Kyiv and kill 60 people. It’s got to stop. That’s got to stop.”
The deal is “broader than Patriots.”
Russia’s Putin needs to take Trump’s warning seriously, Rutte says
Rutte says:
So if I was Vladimir Putin today, and you’re speaking about what you were planning to do in 50 days, and this announcement, I would reconsider whether I should not take negotiations about Ukraine more seriously than I was doing at the moment.
Ukraine will get ‘massive numbers’ of military equipment under deal with US, Rutte says
Nato secretary general Mark Rutte says a bit more on the deal.
This is really big. This is really big.
He says Trump called him on Thursday and said he wanted to give Ukraine what it needed to have, but asked Europeans to pay for it, “which is totally logical.”
This is, again, Europeans stepping up.
Rutte says he has been in touch with “many countries” intending to be part of the deal, and namechecks Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the UK, the Netherlands, and Canada.
“And this is only the first wave, there will be more,” he says.
He adds that Nato will work through its systems to “make sure that we know what Ukrainians need”
He says:
“It will mean that Ukraine can get his hands on really massive numbers of military equipment, both for air defence, but also missiles, ammunition.”
Trump confirms deal for ‘greatest military equipment’ for Nato, Ukraine
On Ukraine and Nato, Trump confirms that he agreed to deal to send weapons to Ukraine as he boasts the US makes “the greatest military equipment in the world.”
The new equipment will be made for Nato and available to be sent onwards to Ukraine.
“We make the best equipment, the best missiles, the best of everything, the European nations know that, and we made a deal today.
European nations know that, and we’ve made a deal today, and I’m going to have Mark speak about it, but we’ve made a deal today where we are going to be sending them weapons, and they’re going to be paying for them.
We the United States will not be having any payment made, we’re not buying it, but we will manufacture it, and they’re going to be paying for it.”
Trump says ‘very unhappy’ with Russia, threatens 100% tariffs over Ukraine
On Russia, Trump says “we are very, very unhappy with them.”
He then says:
“We’re going to be doing very severe tariffs if we don’t have a deal in 50 days tariffs, about 100%, you call them secondary tariffs, you know what that means.”
He repeats he is “very disappointed” with Russia’s Vladimir Putin “because I thought we would have had a deal two months ago, but it doesn’t seem to get there.”
Trump meeting with Nato’s Rutte – live stream
US president Donald Trump is meeting with Nato secretary general Mark Rutte at the White House right now.
You can watch their meeting below, but I will bring you the key lines here.
Trump expected to announce plan to sell Patriot defence systems to Ukraine
Dan Sabbagh
Defence and security editor
Donald Trump has indicated that the US will announce a plan to sell Patriot air defence systems and other weapons to Ukraine later on Monday, amid growing White House exasperation with Russia’s refusal to agree to a ceasefire.
The president told reporters on Sunday as he returned from the Club World Cup final that the US would “send them various pieces of very sophisticated military and they’re going to pay us 100% for them”.
“We will send them Patriots, which they desperately need,” Trump added, describing the impending announcement as “business for us”.
Though Trump did not spell out exactly who would fund the purchases, it is expected to involve European countries. Last week the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said Berlin was “ready to acquire” additional Patriot systems.
A German government spokesperson said on Monday morning that European partners would contribute directly to the purchase of Patriot systems, and that more than three were involved. The country’s defence minister, Boris Pistorius, was in Washington to discuss further details, Berlin said.
Trump said last week he would make a “major statement” on Ukraine on Monday. He has become frustrated with his lack of progress in persuading Vladimir Putin to agree to a ceasefire and an end to the war.
During the election campaign Trump said he could end the Ukraine war in 24 hours, and following his victory began a series of bilateral discussions with Putin in an effort to broker a ceasefire. But these failed to progress as Russia made maximalist territorial demands, while stepping up its bombing of Ukraine’s cities.
At least six civilians were reported by Ukrainian regional officials to have been killed and 30 injured by Russian bombing in the last 24 hours. The country’s air force said Russia had attacked with 136 drones and four S-300 or S-400 missiles.
Jakub Krupa
As we are still waiting to hear from Donald Trump on his “major announcement” on Russia and Ukraine – timed around his meeting with Nato secretary general Mark Rutte should be this afternoon – here is a good background read on what we are expecting, from our defence and security editor Dan Sabbagh.
EU draws up list of US goods worth €72bn it could target if talks fail, trade chief says
We are getting more from EU trade chief Maroš Šefčovič who told a press conference earlier this afternoon that the European Commission put forward a new list of US goods worth €72bn that could be targeted by EU levies if tariff talks with Washington fail, AFP reported.
He said the proposal was shared with EU trade ministers meeting in Brussels.
He also said he plans to talk with his US counterparts later on Monday to discuss the state of play, Reuters added.