Trump said he would introduce 100 per cent secondary tariffs on Russia if there was no deal within 50 days, ITV News’ Correspondent Robert Moore reports
US President Donald Trump has pledged to build more weapons for Ukraine, saying he is “very unhappy” with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In a joint press conference with Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte, Trump said the US would build “top of the line” weapons, which Nato would pay for and distribute.
“We make the greatest military equipment in the world,” Trump said.
“We’re going to make top of the line weapons and they’re going to be sent to Nato.”
“It’s a very big deal we’ve made: this is billions of dollars worth of military equipment (which) is going to be purchased from the United States, going to Nato and that’s going to be quickly distributed to the battlefield.”
Rutte confirmed the EU would pay for the scheme which had added to the “tremendous success” of the Nato summit.
“This is really big,” he said.
“(Mr Trump) called me on Thursday and said that (he) had taken a decision – and the decision is that you want Ukraine to have what it needs… to be able to defend itself against Russia.
“But you want Europeans to pay for it, which is totally logical.
“It will mean that Ukraine can get its hands on really massive numbers of military equipment, both for air defence, missiles, ammunition.”
Trump said he had become very disappointed with Russia and would also introduce 100 per cent secondary tariffs on the country if there was no deal within 50 days.
He said the US had spent about 350 billion US dollars on the war between Russia and Ukraine and he wanted to see it end.
“We are very unhappy, I am, with Russia,” Trump said.
“I’m disappointed in President Putin because I thought we would’ve had a deal two months ago, but it doesn’t seem to get there.
“We’re very, very unhappy with them and we’re going to be doing very severe tariffs if we don’t have a deal in 50 days.
“It couldn’t be more simple.”
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