Is Putin Concerned by Trump’s Ultimatum?

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00:00President Trump has condemned Russia's military actions in Ukraine and is threatening new sanctions

00:07if a deal to stop the war isn't reached by Friday. Is President Putin concerned about this ultimatum

00:14or actually reaching a deal at all? Well, you talk about ultimatums and I think it's

00:21absolutely unacceptable to talk with Russian language of ultimatums and that's what Russian

00:27politicians said many times and the main problem to my mind is that Trump doesn't want to consider

00:38the Russian interests and actually he behaves himself as a little kid who asked for a candy

00:46and after he was refused he starts to crush everything around. That's the real problem. It's

00:52absolutely impossible to reach an agreement with Ukraine in 10 days or in 20 days or a month or two

00:58months. We started the negotiations in Turkey. These negotiations are going very hardly and this is a

01:06problem. We reach agreements on humanitarian issues but not political, not military issues and this is

01:13also a problem so we need more time. And as for the sanctions, as for the tariffs, well, Trump talks about

01:21the secondary sanctions. This means that these sanctions will be imposed not on Russia but on the

01:27countries that purchase the oil from Russia and primarily India. Well, China also does, China also buys the

01:37Russian oil but we know that previously Trump has attempted to impose tariffs on China and he failed. He failed.

01:45Absolutely. This time India. And the question is what is the main aim? What is the main aim? What is the main

01:55Trump's aim? Is he really wants to punish Russia or he wants to make India purchase the American oil instead of

02:03Russian? This is the real question.