Is Trump losing patience with Putin?
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
On Sunday, NBC reported that Donald Trump was ‘very angry’ with Vladimir Putin over his approach to a ceasefire in Ukraine. So is he changing his mind on the Russian President?
Vic and Vit talk to Kurt Volker, Donald Trump’s former special representative for Ukraine about the current state of negotiations, the threat of sanctions and golf diplomacy.
They also discuss how Trump’s comments were received in the Russian media.
Today’s episode is presented by Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaly Shevchenko. The producers were Ryan Johnston, Peter Karlsen and Ben Carter. The technical producer was Andrews. The series producer is Tim Walklate. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham. Email Ukrainecast@bbc.co.uk with your questions and comments. You can also send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram to +44 330 1239480
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, it's 1,133 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:10.4 | Is President Trump really changing his mind on Vladimir Putin? |
| 0:14.9 | Have a listen to this from Kristen Welker on the US network, NBC News on Sunday. |
| 0:20.0 | Just hours ago, President Trump called me to tell me he is, quote, pissed off with Russia's |
| 0:26.2 | President Putin and threatened to impose secondary tariffs on Russia's oil. |
| 0:31.2 | Quote, if Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, |
| 0:36.0 | and if I think it was Russia's fault, which it might not be, but if I think it was Russia's |
| 0:41.3 | fault, I am going to put secondary tariffs on all oil coming out of Russia. |
| 0:47.2 | Mr. Trump said 25% tariffs on Russia. |
| 0:49.6 | Well, what do we make of this, Vitaly? |
| 0:51.4 | Well, these are the harshest comments yet made by Donald Trump |
| 0:56.9 | about Vladimir Putin during his second coming to the White House and things being not as |
| 1:04.8 | smooth as they seemed between the two of them. And how has it gone down in Russia? Well, what they did in relation to |
| 1:12.9 | these specific comments is what they normally do about awkward subjects. Because on the one hand, |
| 1:20.2 | they've got the Kremlin telling the media, the public in Russia, that Vladimir Putin and |
| 1:26.4 | Donald Trump, they understand each other, they trust each other. |
| 1:30.0 | And then Donald Trump says he's very angry at Vladimir Putin. |
| 1:33.3 | So editors in Russian TV, they can't really make that decision their own. |
| 1:37.9 | Is Trump our friend? |
| 1:39.1 | Is Trump our foe? |
| 1:40.0 | So normally they chose to focus on other things that Trump said about Zelensky |
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