"I'm not happy with what Putin does. He kills many people... I don't know what the hell happened to Putin. I've known him a long time. I've always gotten along with him. But he sends rockets to cities and kills people, and I don't like it at all. We are in the mediate of a conversation, and he fires rockets to Kiev and another cities" - he told Donald Trump reporters on Sunday, [as reported by Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defence/Russian-drone-fragments-set-kyiv-apartment-building-ablaze-official-says-2025-05-24). erstwhile asked if, after specified an event, he was considering imposing further sanctions on the Russian Federation, he stated that this was obvious.
