Ukraine-Russia war latest: Cash-strapped Putin ‘calls on oligarchs to prop up Russian economy’
Russian president Vladimir Putin has asked oligarchs to donate to the country’s budget in a bid to stabilise the country’s finances, people familiar with the matter said.
Putin has said Russia will fight on until it captures the remaining areas of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region not under its control, reported the Financial Times.
This comes as Donald Trump suggested the US could divert weapons from Ukraine to the Middle East – despite Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s urging Europe not to allow Putin to take advantage of the escalating Iranian crisis.
The US president said: “You know, we have tremendous amounts of ammunition. We have them in other countries… sometimes we take from one and we use for another.”
The US is selling weapons to Nato, which hands them over to Ukraine.
Trump also said: “Ukraine’s not our war”, referring to statements from the German chancellor that the Iran conflict was not Europe’s war.
