Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump warns Putin he is ‘playing with fire’ with unprecedented drone bombardment
Donald Trump has warned Vladimir Putin that he is “playing with fire” in the latest threat issued by the US president following a deadly onslaught of Russian aerial attacks on Ukraine.
“What Vladimir Putin doesn’t realize is that if it weren’t for me, lots of really bad things would have already happened in Russia, and I mean REALLY BAD. He’s playing with fire,” Trump said in a Truth Social post on Tuesday.
His comments came just two days after he claimed Putin had “gone absolutely crazy” and was “needlessly killing civilians”. Russia killed at least a dozen people over the weekend during their largest aerial attacks of the more than three-year war. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that Russia had launched more than 900 drones and missiles at Ukraine in just a few days. The attacks resume on Tuesday night into Wednesday morning.
Former Russian president and top security official Dmitry Medvedev responded to Trump’s latest comments by threatening World War III, drawing the ire of the White House.
“Stoking fears of WW III is an unfortunate, reckless comment… and unfitting of a world power,” Trump’s envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, wrote on X.
