— Sounds likely,” said Trump, answering the question whether he intended to impose additional sanctions on Russia, If Vladimir Putin refuses to negociate to end the war in Ukraine. erstwhile asked for further military support for Ukraine, Trump replied that he "checks it".
“We talk to Zelenski, We'll be talking to president Putin shortly and see how this goes. “ He said. He stated that although the president of Ukraine “strongly” declares that he is ready to negotiate, he does not know whether the same can be said about Putin. However, he added that Russia should be afraid about peace, due to the fact that it suffers large losses. He mentioned in this context the number of 800,000 soldiers (on Monday he talked about a million) and 600-700 1000 on the Ukrainian side (on Monday he spoke about 600,000).
Trump one more time said that the USA they spent besides much on Ukraine's aid compared to Europe, claiming, contrary to the available data, that they spent $200 billion more on it. He again stated that the threshold for defence spending of NATO countries should be not 2% of GDP but 5%. He mentioned Poland as 1 of the fewer countries, which spent more than 2% of the required in his word of office.
Conversation between Donald Trump and China’s leader
The fresh president besides said he spoke about the war in Ukraine during a fresh telephone conversation with China's leader Xi Jinping.
— I told him he should end it. due to the fact that he didn’t do much about it,” Trump reported.
Trump besides reiterated his threat of imposing duties on imports from China, Mexico and Canada, adding that he intended to do so on 1 February. As he pointed out — denying the “Wall Street Journal” reports on the subject — that This threat has nothing to do with his intention to renegotiate the trade agreement USMCA (USA, Mexico, Canada), but it is related to illegal immigration and the smuggling of fentanyl.
