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Trump said that Russia’s recent test of a nuclear cruise missile was ‘inappropriate’ and urged him to ‘get the war ended’
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Donald Trump has warned Vladimir Putin that the US “has a nuclear submarine off your shore” as he condemned a Russian cruise missile test as “inappropriate”.
Putin said Russia had successfully tested its nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile, a nuclear-capable weapon Moscow says can pierce any defence shield, in a move that has infuriated Washington. Moscow said the Burevestnik had flown for 14,000km.
Responding to Putin’s announcement, Trump said the US did not need to fly so far as it had a nuclear submarine off the coast of Russia.
“They know we have a nuclear submarine, the greatest in the world, right off their shores, so I mean, it doesn’t have to go 8,000 miles,” Trump told reporters, according to an audio file posted by the White House.
“I don’t think it’s an appropriate thing for Putin to be saying, either, by the way: You ought to get the war ended, the war that should have taken one week is now in … its fourth year, that’s what you ought to do instead of testing missiles.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday asked North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui to tell Kim Jong Un that “everything was going to plan” in relations.
Putin met Kim’s foreign minister in the Kremlin.
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban will discuss U.S. sanctions on Russian oil companies when he meets U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington next week, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Monday.
“In the second half of next week there will be an opportunity in Washington for the prime minister to discuss this issue in person with the US President,” Szijjarto told a briefing.
As the fresh U.S. sanctions do not take effect until late November, they are not currently creating any problems or causing a reduction in Hungary’s oil imports from Russia, Szijjarto said.
Some 200 Russian troops managed to break through in the front-line city of Pokrovsk, the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed forces said on Sunday.
Troops were said to be engaging in small arms and drones clashes with Ukrainian forces in the city. The Ukrainian military said they were holding the Russians at bay with counter-attacks, but fighting was “highly dynamic and intense”.
Russia claimed over the weekend that Russian forces had surrounded up to 5,500 Ukrainian troops in the Pokrovsk direction, a claim the analysts said was likely false.
Ukraine has nonetheless been pressed to stop Russian troops from breaking through. A major breach in late July was repelled through until early October, but troops on the front lines report dwindling man and firepower.
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene said on Monday her country will begin to shoot down smuggler balloons crossing the border from Belarus, which have repeatedly interrupted the Baltic nation’s air traffic.
Lithuania closed Vilnius Airport four times last week after balloons entered its airspace, and each time temporarily shut its Belarus border crossings in response to the incidents.
Lithuania has said balloons are sent by smugglers transporting contraband cigarettes from Belarus into the EU, but it also blames Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, for not stopping the practice.
U.S. President Donald Trump warned on Monday that the United States had a nuclear submarine positioned off Russia’s coast after Vladimir Putin said he had tested a new nuclear-powered cruise missile capable of piercing any defence shield.
Putin said on Sunday Russia had successfully tested its Burevestnik missile, a nuclear-capable weapon, and will move towards deploying it.
Moscow said the 9M730 Burevestnik (Storm Petrel) had flown for 14,000 km (8,700 miles).
Asked on Air Force One about the test of the missile, Trump said the United States did not need to fly so far as it had a nuclear submarine off the coast of Russia.
“They know we have a nuclear submarine, the greatest in the world, right off their shores, so I mean, it doesn’t have to go 8,000 miles,” Trump told reporters, according to an audio file posted by the White House.
“I don’t think it’s an appropriate thing for Putin to be saying, either, by the way: You ought to get the war ended, the war that should have taken one week is now in … its fourth year, that’s what you ought to do instead of testing missiles.”
Ukraine and its allies have agreed to proactively work on a ceasefire plan after US president Donald Trump proposed ending the war at current battle lines.
President Volodymyr Zelensky told Axios that allies were to come up with “some quick points, like a plan for a ceasefire”, amid Russia’s apparent reluctance to commit.
Zelensky welcomed Trump’s recent sanctions on Russian oil, but said that US weapons would still be needed to “pressure” Putin into negotiations.
He said Ukraine was asking the U.S. administration not only for Tomahawks missiles but “similar things” that do not require lengthy training.
Lithuania’s prime minister said Monday that her country has drawn up plans to shut its border crossings with Belarus indefinitely, after flights at the capital’s airport were disrupted repeatedly by suspected sightings of balloons used to smuggle cigarettes across the frontier.
Lithuania’s National Security Commission met after balloon sightings prompted the suspension of air traffic at Vilnius Airport on three successive evenings — Friday, Saturday and Sunday — causing cancellations, diversions and delays.
The Kremlin said that a visit by Russia’s special envoy for investment and economic cooperation to the United States was a small step on a long road to dialogue.
Envoy Kirill Dmitriev was in the U.S. for what he said was a series of long-planned meetings.
“Informal contacts in general are a very important component of dialogue,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
“This is just a small step on a long road.”
Ukraine is ready to fight on for another three years, Polish prime minister Donald Tusk said, adding that he hopes the war will not last longer.
Tusk told The Sunday Times that Kyiv was anxious about the toll the war could take on its population and economy should it stretch on for longer than a few more years.
“President Zelensky told me [on Thursday] that he hopes that the war will not last 10 years, but that Ukraine is ready to fight for another two, three years,” he said.
Russia has reportedly tested a new nuclear-capable and powered cruise missile, which President Vladimir Putin claims is designed to confound existing defences, moving closer to its military deployment.
Here’s what we know about the Burevestnik:
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