AIR FORCE ONE: US President Donald Trump said that Russian President Vladimir Putin should end the war in Ukraine instead of testing a nuclear-powered missile, adding that the US had a nuclear submarine positioned off Russia\u2019s coast. Putin said on Sunday that Russia had successfully tested its nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile, a nuclear-capable weapon Moscow says can pierce any defense shield, and will move toward deploying the weapon.<\/p>\n
Asked on Air Force One about the test of the 9M730 Burevestnik (Storm Petrel) \u2013 dubbed the SSC-X-9 Skyfall by NATO \u2013 which Moscow said had flown for 14,000km, Trump said the United States did not need to fly so far as it had a nuclear submarine off the coast of Russia. \u201cThey know we have a nuclear submarine, the greatest in the world, right off their shores, so I mean, it doesn\u2019t have to go 8,000 miles,\u201d Trump told reporters, according to an audio file posted by the White House.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s an appropriate thing for Putin to be saying, either, by the way: You ought to get the war ended, the war that should have taken one week is now in … its fourth year, that\u2019s what you ought to do instead of testing missiles,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n
Trump has repeatedly said he wants to end the war in Ukraine, Europe\u2019s deadliest since World War Two, though he has said that finding peace has been harder than reaching a ceasefire in Gaza or ending conflict between India and Pakistan.<\/p>\n
Since first announcing the 9M730 Burevestnik in 2018, Putin has cast the weapon as a response to moves by the United States to build a missile defense shield after Washington in 2001 unilaterally withdrew from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, and to enlarge the NATO military alliance.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re not playing games with us and we\u2019re not playing games with them either,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWe test missiles all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reuters reported from Washington on Oct. 25 that Trump\u2019s administration has prepared additional sanctions it could use to target key areas of Russia\u2019s economy if Putin continues to delay ending Moscow\u2019s war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Asked if he was considering additional sanctions on Russia, Trump said: \u201cYou\u2019ll find out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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