Russia 'didn’t care' about Trump's weapons for Ukraine, tariff threats, official says

[ad_1] LONDON -- Russia continued its nightly bombardment of Ukraine in a single day into Tuesday, shortly after President Donald Trump introduced his determination to provide Ukraine with new navy gear and White Home threats of additional financial measures in opposition to Moscow.

Ukraine's air drive stated Russia focused a number of areas in a single day with 267 drones, of which round 200 have been Shahed assault drones and the remaining decoys. The air drive stated it shot down or in any other case suppressed 244 drones. Twenty-three drones impacted throughout seven places, with falling particles reported in 9 places, the air drive stated.

Russia's Protection Ministry, in the meantime, stated its forces downed no less than 70 Ukrainian drones in a single day into Tuesday morning. Among the many areas focused was the southwestern Voronezh area which borders northeastern Ukraine. A minimum of 24 folks have been injured there, Gov. Aleksandr Gusev stated on Telegram.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stated Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin would decide about how to answer Trump.

"The U.S. president's statements are very severe," Peskov instructed reporters throughout a every day briefing. "A few of them are addressed personally to President Putin. We undoubtedly want time to research what was stated in Washington."

Dmitry Medvedev -- -- the previous Russian president and prime minister now serving because the deputy chairman of the nation's Safety Council -- was extra forthright, writing on social media that the Kremlin was unmoved by what he referred to as Trump's "theatrical ultimatum."

"The world shuddered, anticipating the results," wrote Medvedev, who throughout Moscow's full-scale warfare on Ukraine has turn out to be generally known as a very hawkish voice inside Putin's safety institution. "Belligerent Europe was upset. Russia did not care."

Trump stated throughout an Oval Workplace assembly with NATO Secretary-Normal Mark Rutte on Monday that he would impose "extreme tariffs" -- although it was not totally clear if the president was referring to tariffs, sanctions or each -- in opposition to Russia and its buying and selling companions if a ceasefire deal will not be reached in 50 days.

President Donald Trump is pictured within the Oval Workplace on the White Home in Washington, D.C., on July 14, 2025.

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Trump additionally stated he had authorized a brand new tranche of weapons to Ukraine price "billions of {dollars}." However particulars of what Trump referred to as a "very large deal" stay unclear. Two U.S. protection officers instructed ABC Information on Monday that the Pentagon was nonetheless engaged on precisely what navy support might be despatched to Ukraine.

The protection officers stated 17 Patriot surface-to-air missile techniques that Trump talked about would come totally from European allies, who would then buy new alternative techniques from the U.S.

The Patriot techniques -- of which Ukraine at the moment has no less than six, two of which have been offered by the U.S. and 4 by different NATO allies -- have turn out to be a key in Ukraine's protection in opposition to Russian drone, missile and airstrikes since they arrived within the nation in 2023.

"We will have some come very quickly, inside days," Trump stated when requested how lengthy the brand new batch of American weapons would take to reach. On Patriots particularly, the president stated, "They'll begin arriving very quickly."

Trump's announcement got here after months of rising frustration within the White Home over Russia's intensifying bombardments of Ukraine and its failure to decide to a full ceasefire.

Talking on Sunday, Trump stated of Russian Putin, "He talks good after which he bombs all people within the night. There's somewhat little bit of an issue there."

However questions stay about Trump's menace to impose 100% "secondary tariffs" on nations doing enterprise with Russia. The US has negligible imports from Russia, which account for round 0.2% of U.S. imports, in accordance with Census Bureau information.

The specter of secondary tariffs or sanctions on Russia's buying and selling companions seems extra vital, although might immediate retaliatory measures in opposition to the U.S. China and India, for instance, are amongst Moscow's prospects for its fossil gas exports.

Regardless of the open questions, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated he had a "excellent dialog" with Trump on Monday. "Thanks to your willingness to help Ukraine and proceed to work collectively to cease the killings and set up a long-lasting and simply peace," he wrote on social media.

On this photograph offered by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters attempt to put out a fireplace following a Russian assault in Kharkiv area of Ukraine, on July 15, 2025.

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"We mentioned with the president the mandatory means and options to supply extra safety for folks from Russian assaults and strengthen our positions," Zelenskyy continued. "We're able to work as productively as attainable to attain peace."

Oleksandr Merezhko, a member of the Ukrainian parliament representing Zelenskyy's social gathering and the chair of the physique's overseas affairs committee, instructed ABC Information he was "cautiously optimistic," hoping that Monday's information indicated the start of a "most strain" marketing campaign on Putin by Trump.

"The entire state of affairs is a win-win-win state of affairs for Trump, Ukraine and Europe," he stated. "Nonetheless, the 50-day deadline is of some concern, as a result of Putin would possibly take it as a inexperienced gentle to accentuate offensive operations."

Russia's summer time offensive is already underway, in accordance with the Ukrainian navy, with Moscow's forces pushing for extra territory all throughout the entrance. Russian efforts are significantly concentrated within the japanese Donetsk and Sumy areas, Kyiv has stated.

"To stop it from occurring it's crucially vital to supply Ukraine immediately, now, with the utmost navy help," Merezhko stated, "together with offensive weaponry like long-range missiles, as an illustration Tomahawks."

Ukrainian backers additionally within the Senate urged Trump to construct on Monday's announcement.

"This announcement, by itself, is not going to be sufficient to deliver Putin to the negotiating desk and eventually finish this warfare," Senate International Relations Rating Member Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., stated in an announcement despatched to ABC Information.

"President Trump must decide to a sustained circulation of safety help to Ukraine over the long-term," she added. "And we should transfer instantly on the powerful sanctions package deal within the Senate, which has overwhelming bipartisan help and can make it tougher and tougher for Putin to prop up his financial system and maintain his unlawful warfare."

That bipartisan Senate proposal -- fronted by Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. -- proposed secondary sanctions of as much as 500% on nations doing enterprise with Russia, although in accordance with Graham it's going to embody an possibility permitting Trump to waive sanctions on particular person nations.

In a submit to X, Graham stated Trump "put the nations who fund Putin's warfare machine on discover: cease financially supporting the warfare in Ukraine or face 100% tariffs. If I have been them, I'd take President Trump at his phrase."

Civilians participate in a navy coaching organized by Ukrainian troopers in Kyiv area on July 12, 2025.

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Requested on Monday whether or not he would undertake the Senate's blueprint, Trump instructed reporters, "We might do secondary tariffs with out the Senate, with out the Home. However what they're crafting additionally might be excellent."