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US president criticizes Russian, Ukrainian counterparts after drone-missile attack: report
Published: May 26, 2025 05:10 PM
A vehicle destroyed by a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sunday, May 25, 2025. Photo: VCG

A vehicle destroyed by a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sunday, May 25, 2025. Photo: VCG


US President Donald Trump on Sunday criticized his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts after Russia and Ukraine conducted latest attacks on each other on Sunday, according to multiple media reports.
 
"I'm not happy with what Putin's doing," Trump told reporters before he took Air Force One from Morristown, New Jersey back to Washington, D.C., according to the Xinhua News Agency.
 
Speaking to reporters in New Jersey before boarding Air Force One, Trump expressed his unhappiness toward the Russian leader amid the latest strikes, especially after he spoke with the Russian leader last Monday in an attempt to negotiate a 30-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, according to media reports.
 
"He's killing a lot of people, and I don't know what the hell happened to Putin," Trump was quoted as saying in a report by the New York Times. "I've known him a long time. Always gotten along with him. But he's sending rockets into cities and killing people, and I don't like it at all."
 
"We're in the middle of talking, and he's shooting rockets into Kiev and other cities," the US leader was quoted as saying in the media report. 
 
The Kiev authority said at least 12 people, including three children, were killed and dozens of others injured across Ukraine in a combined missile-drone attack launched by Russia early Sunday. Russian air defense units intercepted and destroyed 110 Ukrainian drones over the country's regions, Xinhua reported.
 
Later on Sunday evening, Trump wrote in a Truth Social post that Putin "has gone absolutely CRAZY!" according to Xinhua.
 
The AP News described the US president leveled "some of his sharpest criticism at the Russian leader."
 
In the same post, he also criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, saying the Ukrainian president was "doing his country no favors by talking the way he does. Everything out of his mouth causes problems, I don't like it, and it better stop."