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President Donald Trump He is preparing to punish Russia with “Phase Two” sanctions after launching the largest drone and missile strike ever on Sunday, damaging the cabinet building and killing her mother and her baby.
“Yes, I am,” Trump told a reporter that he asked if he was ready to continue more sanctions after months of failing to get Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop military operations or meet with the Ukrainian president. Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Trump says he still has plans to Putin “In the next few days” although it’s unclear what he hopes to get from the latest conversation.
A family with babies was building a basement shelter during a Russian missile and drone strike in Kyiv, Ukraine on September 7, 2025. (Yan Dobronosov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
Russia attacks Ukraine with its biggest air strikes, this is a talk about peace flashing
“Look, we will finish it,” he told reporters on Sunday. “The situation in Russia-Ukraine. We will finish it.”
Trump said he was “not excited” by Russia’s Sunday attack, which damaged the cabinet of ministers in Kiev and killed four people, including a mother and her baby, after Ukraine fired 810 drones and 13 missiles.
The Ukrainian Air Force said it eliminated 747 drones and four firing missiles.
“I’m not excited about what’s going on there,” Trump said. “I’m sure we’ll fix it. But I’m not happy with them. I’m not happy with any relationship with this war.”
President Donald Trump addressed reporters as he left Washington’s White House on Sunday, September 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Putin warns Ukrainian Western military to be “legitimate target”
The strike happened a few days after Putin claimed he would Meet Zelenskyy As long as Ukrainian leaders travel to Moscow, Western and Ukrainian officials say it is not only a dangerous claim to Zelenskyy, but also a lack of real effort in Putin to negotiate sincerely to end the war.
Trump told reporters on Sunday European Leader Although he did not elaborate on who will travel and whether Zelenskyy would be in the middle of it, he will also head to Washington, D.C. this week to discuss the next step in ending the war.
Putin said last month that his end-of-war clause would focus on freezing their front lines in Kharkif and Zaporizhia, but seemed to suggest Ukraine needs to withdraw its troops from Donetsk and Luhansk, Among other regulations.
Rescuers put out the fire in a 9-storey apartment building in the Sviatoshynskyi area attacked by Russian drones and were partially destroyed on the fourth floor of Kiev, Ukraine on September 7, 2025. (Yan Dobronosov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
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But on Monday, the Ukrainian military said it had recaptured Donetsk’s strategically important Zarichne, which was evaluated as about 75% of the Russian region last month.
Zarichne is located near Luhansk – a region that Russia is assessed as an almost entirely occupied – and is close to the key transportation route connecting Donetsk’s strategically important cities.
Ukraine also said last month that it has made progress in the area near Pokrovsk in western Donetsk, with Russian troops concentrating Operation work.
Reuters contributed to the report.
