Trump’s announcements on Ukraine : First comments and reactions

By Reuters
July 15, 2025

Trump asked Zelenskiy if Ukraine could hit Moscow, FT reports

July 15 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump has privately encouraged Ukraine to step up strikes deep in Russian territory, even asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy whether he could hit Moscow if the U.S. provided long-range weapons, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
The newspaper, citing two people familiar with the conversation, said Trump spoke to his Ukrainian counterpart in a call on July 4, a day after speaking to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Nearly all US weapons for Kiev ready for delivery — NYT

Jul 15, 2025

According to the report, this situation indicates that the weapons have either been drawn from US arsenals, or have just been produced

NEW YORK, July 15. /TASS/. Nearly all US weapons, which are to be delivered to NATO for further transfer to Kiev in line with Washington-NATO agreements, are now ready for transportation, The New York Times wrote.

According to the report, this situation indicates that the weapons have either been drawn from US arsenals, or have just been produced.

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Donald Trump sending ‘top of the line’ weapons to support NATO in Ukraine war

Jul 15, 2025

If an agreement to end the war with Ukraine is not reached in 50 days, Donald Trump said the US would bring in “severe tariffs” of “about 100%” on Russia.

Donald Trump has agreed to send “top of the line weapons” to NATO to support Ukraine – and threatened Russia with “severe” tariffs if it doesn’t agree to end the war.

Speaking with NATO secretary-general Mark Rutte during a meeting at the White House, the US president said: “We’ve made a deal today where we are going to be sending them weapons, and they’re going to be paying for them

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Kremlin finds Trump’s latest remarks serious, says will need time to analyze his rhetoric

Jul 15, 2025

At a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, the US leader said he was “disappointed” with Russia and personally President Vladimir Putin

MOSCOW, July 15. /TASS/. The Kremlin has taken note of US President Donald Trump’s statement on Monday about military aid supplies to Kiev and will thoroughly analyze his rhetoric, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at a news briefing.

“The latest statements from the US president are very serious. Something in them concerns President [Vladimir] Putin personally,” Peskov said. “We will certainly need time to analyze the rhetoric from Washington,” he added.

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Missiles for Everyone! How Trump is Using NATO /John Mearsheimer

Jul 14, 2025

President Trump’s long-anticipated announcement turned out to be underwhelming: rather than a major policy shift or dramatic resolution to the Ukraine war, he issued a 50-day ultimatum threatening 100% “secondary tariffs” on countries trading with Russia if no deal is reached. This move was framed as tough, but experts called it largely empty rhetoric—with no real leverage behind it. Professor John Mearsheimer argued that Trump’s threats are toothless: the U.S. lacks weapons and manpower to meaningfully assist Ukraine, and sanctions on countries like China, India, and Brazil—core BRICS members—would backfire economically. These countries are likely to ignore U.S. pressure, and enforcing such sanctions could hurt the global economy, which would in turn damage the U.S. economy. Trump has repeatedly shifted timelines—claiming solutions were “100 days away,” then “days,” then “two weeks,” now “50 days”—which Mearsheimer says shows a lack of serious planning. Meanwhile, Russia views its war aims as non-negotiable, having made its demands clear. Mearsheimer emphasized that the Trump team refuses to accept Putin’s terms, leading to stalled diplomacy and “useless” talks that misread the situation. Ultimately, the announcement reflects a disconnect between U.S. political rhetoric and the hard realities of the battlefield and diplomacy, with Russia continuing to press forward and U.S. options increasingly limited.

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Trump’s Ukraine Reversal Represents ‘Complete Betrayal Of America First’

Jul 15, 2025

Donald Trump is on the brink of tearing up his ‘no foreign wars, pro-peace’ pre-election pledge on Ukraine, with plans to deliver more weapons, and threats against Russia edging him closer toward inheriting “Biden’s war.” Sputnik asked a renowned US geopolitics and military affairs expert to break it down.
The president claims that his plans to ramp up arms deliveries to Ukraine and threaten Russia with secondary tariffs are designed to help end the conflict, “when in fact these steps are serving to prolong and escalate the war unnecessarily with no end in sight,” ex-US Army staff officer David Pyne says.

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Trump is Under Pressure of EU, NATO – Lavrov on Trump’s Statement on 50 Days to End Ukraine Conflict

Jul 15, 2025

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday that Moscow seeks to understand the reasoning behind US President Donald Trump’s statement about a 50-day deadline to resolve the Ukrainian conflict.
“We want to understand what is behind this statement. Fifty days. It used to be 24 hours. And 100 days. We have all been through this and really want to understand what motivates the US president,” Lavrov said at a press conference following the SCO foreign ministers’ meeting.
It cannot be said that there was no progress during negotiations in Istanbul on the Ukraine settlement, Sergey Lavrov said, commenting on US President Donald Trump’s remark on 50 days.

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Ukrainians hail Melania Trump after president’s change of tack over Russia

Jul 15, 2025

US first lady celebrated as ‘Agent Melania’ after Donald Trump suggested she played a part in altering his view

Ukrainians are celebrating Melania Trump on social media in a series of memes, after Donald Trump suggested the first lady played a part in his apparent change of heart over Russia.

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Speaking at a meeting in the White House on Monday with the Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte, Trump said his wife had played a key role in pointing out Vladimir Putin’s duplicity.

“My conversations with him [Putin] are always very pleasant. I say, isn’t that a very lovely conversation? And then the missiles go off that night,” Trump said.

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Can Trump be a solution?

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
Nov 5, 2022

Hope dies last. The same is happening with self-deception. The identification of the mainstream Western establishment (and most of the so-called Left in the West), with neoliberal policies and, in particular, NATO’s war against Russia, has renewed in the US and internationally the hopes that perhaps Trump and the (international) current he represents can offer a solution. Times of despair and confusion are the most fertile ground for the policies of fraud and demagoguery.

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