Trump says Putin is ‘DESTROYING Russia’ & demands he ‘makes a deal’ after Kremlin despot called on Don to ‘avoid WW3’

DONALD Trump accused Vladimir Putin of "destroying Russia" with his failed warfare arsenic helium urged him to marque a woody to extremity the bloody conflict.

The new US president warned the Kremlin dictator that his alleged "special subject operation" is wrecking the Russian system and came adjacent to calling him a loser.

Soon aft taking office, 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. He can't beryllium thrilled that he's not doing truthful well.

"I mean, he's grinding it out, but astir radical thought the warfare would beryllium implicit successful astir a week, and present it's been 3 years, right?"

It comes aft Putin publically called connected the Maga person to debar WW3 erstwhile helium told his information council: "We perceive [Trump's] statements connected the request to forestall World War III.

"We undoubtedly invited specified a disposition and congratulate the elected US president."

Trump, 78, warned the blood-soaked despot that spiralling ostentation posed a large menace to his people.

Putin, 72, earlier said helium was acceptable to prosecute with Trump but inactive insisted connected an result that would favour Russia.

He said: "We are unfastened to dialog with the caller US medication connected the Ukrainian conflict.

"The astir important happening present is to destruct the basal causes of the crisis."

Trump pledged to talk to Putin "very quickly" aft taking bureau and an archetypal telephone telephone is expected to instrumentality spot soon.

The president said Ukrainian person Volodymyr Zelensky was acceptable for a woody to halt the struggle which has near astir 1 cardinal dormant and wounded successful 35 months.

And helium spoke of the “great relationship” helium had with Putin during his archetypal term.

He said: “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.”

Trump joked astir his run committedness to extremity the struggle successful 24 hours connected his inauguration day, laughing: “That’s lone fractional a day. I person the different fractional of the day. We’ll see.”

His caller Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the medication could not enactment a timeline connected ending the warfare but aides accidental they whitethorn request months to find "a solution."

Meanwhile despots Putin and Xi Jinping doubled down connected their adjacent ties arsenic they discussed however to respond to Trump's 2nd term.

They spoke connected a video telephone hours aft the American person was inaugurated connected Monday.

Putin waved to Xi, who helium sees arsenic 1 of his astir salient allies.

He called connected Xi to deepen their practice with the accomplishment of Trump.

“These ties are self-sufficient, bash not beryllium connected home governmental factors and the existent planetary situation,” helium claimed.

As good arsenic applying unit to Putin, Trump has taken a hard stance connected China successful the past, threatening Xi with tariffs from Washington.

“I hold with you that practice betwixt Moscow and Beijing is based connected a wide commonality of nationalist interests and a convergence of views connected what relations betwixt large powers should be," Putin told Xi.

"We physique our ties connected the ground of friendship, communal spot and support, equality and communal benefit.”

The backstage portion of the telephone whitethorn person gone into much item connected however they program to respond to a Trump presidency.

Ahead of his instrumentality to office, Trump held a telephone with Xi - but not Putin.

Just 2 days earlier Trump took bureau Putin held a acme with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian successful Moscow.

Both autocratic regimes are acceptable to motion a broad 20-year Russia-Iran agreement, including provisions for person defence practice and a deepening of their subject ties.

The confederation could besides spot some nations articulation their subject forces.

The strategical woody against the West comes amid Sir Keir Starmer's sojourn to Ukraine wherever helium signed a historical 100-year pact with Kyiv.

While Moscow and Tehran accidental their progressively adjacent ties are not directed against different countries, the Russian subject has made extended usage of Iranian drones during the warfare successful Ukraine.