Together with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, Trump presented an agreement that European NATO countries buy weapons from the USA, including patriot systems, and then passed on to Ukraine. It is military goods in billions of billions, which are to be distributed quickly on the battlefield, said Trump.
According to Ruttes, in addition to Germany, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Great Britain and the Netherlands are also present. In addition to patriot missiles, rockets and ammunition should also go to Kyiv. Denmark and the Netherlands confirmed their willingness to buy US weapons for Ukraine on Tuesday.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) spoke of an “important initiative” in Berlin. Federal Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD), who met Pentagon boss Pete Hegseth in Washington on Monday, confirmed that the Federal Government wants to buy two Patriot systems worth a total of two billion euros from the USA to pass them on to Ukraine. The last details would still be clarified, said Pistorius. It is only “for days, maybe weeks until a decision is made”.
In addition, Germany made an official request to buy far -reaching weapon systems of the type Typhon to the USA, Pistorius announced. The system with a range of around 2000 kilometers is to serve Germany to deterrent against Russia.
At the meeting with Rutte in the White House, Trump said “very, very dissatisfied” with Russia. If there was no “deal” about peace in Ukraine in 50 days, the United States would impose “tariffs of around 100 percent”. According to Trump, it is so -called secondary sanctions. They should be directed against countries such as China, India and Brazil, which continue to buy cheap oil and gas from Russia.
Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj welcomed Trump’s announcements and thanked the US President.
The Kremlin, on the other hand, described Trump’s ultimatum on Tuesday as “very serious”. “We certainly need time to analyze what was said in Washington,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskow. Moscow also “waiting for the Ukrainian side suggestions at the time of the third round of direct Russian-Ukrainian negotiations,” continued Peskow. Russia is still ready for talks with Ukraine.
China condemned the Trump’s customs threat to Russian trading partners. “Coercion and pressure will not solve problems,” said a foreign office spokesman in Beijing. According to the Chinese state media, China’s President Xi Jinping, according to the Chinese state media, advocated expanding his country’s relationship to Russia.
It was unclear whether it was a fundamental change of course to Putin, who had previously tried to annoy Moscow and rejected additional arms deliveries to Kiev. This speaks for the fact that he once again commented “disappointed” about the Kremlin boss. “We thought about four times that we had a deal”, but every time Putin continued the bomb attacks on Ukraine, Trump criticized.
On the other hand, it speaks that Trump with his threats of sanctions remains significantly behind suggestions from the US Senate. This wants to impose direct sanctions against Russia. There should be penalty tariffs of 500 percent against allies – five times as much as announced by Trump. In an interview with the BBC, Trump said that despite his disappointment about Putin, he “had not yet completely completed him”.
Trump had announced in the election campaign that he could end the Ukraine war within 24 hours. So far, however, his efforts show no success. In the past few days, Russia had covered Ukraine with the heaviest air raids since the beginning of the war more than three years ago.
Most recently, Trump increasingly expressed criticism of Putin – according to his words also because of his wife Melania. The US President described that he had told his wife about a “wonderful conversation” with Putin. “And then she said, ‘Oh really? A (Ukrainian) city was just bombarded again.'” He would not call Putin a “murderer”, “but he is a hard guy,” added Trump.
