Ukraine-Russia war live: Trump ‘very angry’ with Putin for stalling ceasefire and threatens more sanctions

Russia continued strikes in the city of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine for the second night in a row, injuring two people, sparking fires and damaging a kindergarten and private houses, Ukrainian officials said early on Monday.

The attacks on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, lasted most of the night and hit the city’s largest and oldest district, mayor Ihor Terekhov said.

“The sixth explosion in Kharkiv,” Mr Terekhov said in a post on the Telegram messaging app on Monday.

It was not clear what was the target of these strikes that came a week after the US brokered a partial ceasefire on strikes on energy and Black Sea infrastructure.

Both sides have accused each other of breaking the moratorium.

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday said Moscow had fired more than 1,000 drones in the past week and called for a response from the US and other allies.

Oleh Sinehubov, governor of the Kharkiv region, said on Monday that the overnight attacks followed a late Sunday missile strike on the city of Kupiansk that left three injured and demolished more than 10 houses and a local cemetery.

Russia’s air defence units intercepted and destroyed 66 Ukrainian drones overnight, the Russian defence ministry said on Monday.

Forty-one of the drones were destroyed over the border Bryansk region, 24 over the territory of the Kaluga region and one over the territory of the Kursk region, it said.

The regional governors of Bryansk and Kaluga said on social media that there was no damage as a result of the attacks.

Two people were killed and dozens wounded after Russian drones hit a military hospital, shopping centre and apartment blocks in Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv.

Ukraine’s General Staff had denounced the “deliberate, targeted shelling” of the military hospital late on Saturday.

Among the casualties were service members who were undergoing treatment, it said.

Regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said those killed were a 67-year-old man and a 70-year-old woman.

Mr Zelensky said on Sunday that over the past week “most regions of Ukraine” had come under Russian attack.

Writing on X, he repeated his assertion that “Russia is dragging out the war”, echoing comments he made on Thursday that Russia is prolonging ceasefire talks “just to buy time and then try to grab more land”.

Donald Trump has threatened secondary sanctions on Russian oil, a move that analysts say could have a far-reaching effect on the oil market.

Mr Trump said there would be “a 25 to 50-point tariff on all oil” if a deal is not made between Russia and Ukraine and “if I think it was Russia’s fault”.

“Anybody buying oil from Russia will not be able to sell their product, any product, not just oil, into the United States.”

Analysts suggest that India and China – the biggest buyers of Russian oil – would be the worst affected by the secondary sanctions.

Russia is one of the world’s three largest oil exporters, meaning it could have a punishing impact on those buying Russian oil and distruptions in the trade would have a destabilising impact on the market.

William Reinsch, a former senior Commerce Department official now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the haphazard way Mr Trump was announcing and threatening tariffs leaves many questions unanswered, including how US officials could trace and prove which countries were buying Russian oil.

India has surpassed China to become the biggest buyer of seaborne Russian crude, which comprised about 35 per cent of India’s total crude imports in 2024.

Russia’s defence ministry says it has captured Zaporizhzhia, a village in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, after a missile attack.

“Battlegroup Center units completed the liberation of the settlement of Zaporozhye in the Donetsk People’s Republic through successful offensive operations,” the ministry said in a statement, using its own names for the village and the region that it claims to have annexed, illegally, from Ukraine.

It said a missile strike on Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) units killed up to 170 troops and foreign mercenaries over the past day.

The village is unrelated to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant which is in another region of the same name to the south.

The village lies just 7km from the border of Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk region.

After threatening Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump warned Ukraine’s president Volodomyr Zelensky of “big, big problems” ahead if he backs out of a mineral deal with the US.

The US president’s remarks come hours after he criticised Russian president Vladimir Putin for comments he made about the leader of Ukraine.

“He’s trying to back out of the rare earth deal,” Mr Trump told reporters on Air Force One of Mr Zelensky, referring to an agreement that would provide the US with access to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals.

“If he does that, he’s got some problems. Big, big problems. We made a deal on rare earth. And now he’s saying, ‘well you know, I want to renegotiate the deal’.”

Speaking en route from Florida to Washington, Mr Trump said: “He wants to be a member of Nato. He was never going to be a member of Nato. He understands that.”

Although he insisted to reporters that “we’re making a lot of progress”, he acknowledged that “there’s tremendous hatred” between Mr Zelensky and Mr Putin, a fresh indication that negotiations may not produce the swift conclusion that he promised during the campaign.

In an earlier interview with NBC News, he referenced comments Mr Putin made on Friday about temporarily putting Ukraine under external governance.

Mr Trump said he was “angry, pissed off” when the Russian leader “started getting into Zelensky’s credibility”.

Vladimir Putin is making a mockery of ceasefire efforts, a Ukrainian MP has told The Independent.

Oleksandr Merezhko, who chairs the Ukrainian parliament’s foreign policy committee, said earlier this week that Donald Trump may change his attitude towards the Russian autocrat when he realises Putin is not serious about peace.

Mr Trump’s declaration that he is “p***** off” at the Russian autocrat could be the first evidence of such a change in attitude.

Dealing with Putin is “worse than dealing with gangsters” because “you can never trust, you can never rely [on him]”, Mr Merezhko said.

He added: “It’s an illusion to believe you can make a deal with Putin [which will] be followed conscientiously by Putin. It’s a total illusion.

“Trump should understand that on Putin’s part, it’s a mockery. It’s a mockery, all this negotiation process. When Trump realises this, maybe he will change his attitude towards Putin.”

Sir Keir Starmer has updated US president Donald Trump about recent talks between European countries concerning the proposed ‘coalition of the willing’ peacekeeping force in Ukraine.

But what actually is the coalition?

The central focus of the coalition of the willing is a peacekeeping force, and European leaders are expected to discuss what, exactly, they are willing to contribute to a military effort on the ground in Ukraine.

The group also needs support from the US, which has provided crucial intelligence information to Ukraine throughout the conflict.

So far only the UK and France have committed to providing troops to the cause, and Sir Keir will present a detailed plan on what that peacekeeping force could provide to leaders at the Elysee Palace on Thursday.

The leaders are also expected to discuss ongoing military aid and funding to bolster Ukraine’s military.