Donald Trump issues warning to Putin hours after taking office

Donald Trump has issued a informing to Russian President Vladimir Putin conscionable hours aft taking bureau pursuing his inauguration.

Trump said that Putin is ‘destroying Russia’ and urged him to ‘make a deal’ with Ukraine to extremity the war.

Trump said: ‘He has to marque a deal. I deliberation helium is destroying Russia by not making a deal.

‘I deliberation Russia is going to beryllium successful large trouble.

‘I mean, helium works hard, but astir radical thought the warfare would beryllium implicit successful astir a week, and present it’s been 3 years, right?’

Trump warned that ostentation is simply a large menace to Russia and that the Russian system is sinking.

Putin said helium wants an result that favours Russia but said helium would beryllium unfastened to talking to Trump.

A telephone telephone betwixt the brace is expected to instrumentality spot soon.

He besides said that helium plans to conscionable with Putin astatine immoderate point, with whom helium had a ‘great relationship’ with during his archetypal term.

The Russian President said: ‘We are unfastened to dialog with the caller U.S. medication connected the Ukrainian conflict. The astir important happening present is to destruct the basal causes of the crisis.

‘We’re going to effort to bash it arsenic rapidly arsenic possible. You know, the warfare betwixt Russia and Ukraine should ne'er person started.’

While helium was sat successful the Oval Office, Trump besides said Zelensky is acceptable for a deal.

Trump besides joked astir his run committedness to extremity the struggle successful 24 hours.

He said: ‘That’s lone fractional a day. I person the different fractional of the day. We’ll see.’

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