After admirably attempting to force President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table for a peace deal with Ukraine, President Trump appears to be losing his patience with his Russian counterpart. In his most recent cabinet meeting, President Trump expressed his displeasure with Putin, saying “We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth. He’s very nice all the time but it turns out to be meaningless.”
President Trump: “We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth. He’s very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.” pic.twitter.com/VMnXSTuCiK
— CSPAN (@cspan) July 8, 2025
And, after reports this week that the DoD would curb shipments of weapons to Ukraine, Trump announced in the same cabinet meeting that he would continue sending more weapons to Ukraine.
❗️ BREAKING: Trump says he’ll be sending ‘MORE’ weapons to Ukraine pic.twitter.com/X1EKazvtrg
— RT (@RT_com) July 7, 2025
Perhaps in response, Russia released a barrage of attacks on Ukraine’s airfields early on Wednesday. Christina Lu reports in Foreign Policy’s World Brief:
Russia fired hundreds of drones at Ukraine early Wednesday in a massive barrage that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said marked a record number of aerial targets in a single day during the war.
The attack involved 728 drones and 13 missiles, Zelensky said in a post on X, and mainly targeted Lutsk—a city in northwestern Ukraine, near the Polish border, that is home to military airfields. The Russian Defense Ministry said that the assault focused on Ukrainian air bases and hit “all the designated targets.” Ukrainian officials said that at least one person was killed in the attack..
“This is a telling attack—and it comes precisely at a time when so many efforts have been made to achieve peace, to establish a ceasefire, and yet only Russia continues to rebuff them all,” Zelensky wrote on X. Beyond Lutsk, damage was also reported in 10 Ukrainian regions, he said.
The Kremlin’s latest assault comes at a tenuous point in Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine—which has now stretched past its third year—particularly as U.S. support for Kyiv has wavered under U.S. President Donald Trump. Frictions between Trump and Zelensky were on full display in February, when the U.S. leader and Vice President J.D. Vance publicly and repeatedly berated their Ukrainian counterpart in front of news media in an Oval Office meeting.
Trump’s stance on Ukraine now appears to be turning a new page as his frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin has grown and peace talks have faltered. On Monday, U.S. senior envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg accused Russia of stymying peace talks, which the Kremlin denied. “Russia cannot continue to stall for time while it bombs civilian targets in Ukraine,” Kellogg said.
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