US President Donald Trump discusses with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2017, at the meeting of the APEC economic leaders, part of the Summit of the leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). Credit Line: Mikhail Klimentyev / AFP / Profimedia
Chuck Grassley, a republican senator from Iowa, warned President Donald Trump that Russia “take America as a sucker”, asking the White House leader to punish Moscow for attacking Ukraine in the midst of fire termination, Politico reports.
Donald Trump has put the pressure on Vladimir Putin and their Ukrainian counterpart, Volodimir Zelenski, to accept American proposals for a peace agreement. In a rare gesture, the US president criticized his Russian counterpart on Thursday after an attack by Moscow for the Kiev.
Grassley, a fervent supporter of Ukraine, was one of the main voices in the Republican camp that criticized the Russian aggression.
“I saw enough killing of women + innocent Ukrainians,” wrote the Republican senator, in capital letters, in a post on the X platform.
Chuck Grassley urged the US Republican President to introduce new sanctions against Russia, which he accused of “taking America as a sucker.”
Trump argues that the works on the peace agreement “go smoothly”
Donald Trump said he is making efforts to get a peace agreement before the 100 days of mandate, the moment that takes place next week. He said that the works on the Peace Agreement between Russia and Ukraine “go smoothly” on Friday, in a post on Social Truth on the day that his special emissary Steve Witkoff had a new meeting with Vladimir Putin.
At the same time, the American leader urged Volodimir Zelenski to sign “immediately” the agreement that will give the United States access to Ukraine's “rare lands”.
Except for the moments when he asked Putin not to attack Ukraine anymore, Trump's anger mainly focused on Zelenski. After returning to the White House, the US President repeatedly accused his Ukrainian counterpart of not making more efforts to stop the war started by Russia, calling him “no election dictator” and reprimanding him with JD Vance Vice President in the Oval Office of the White House.
Grassley was also delimited by Donald Trump positions, as in February, when he rejected the criticisms launched by the US President to Zelenski and said Putin is the dictator and the guilty because the war continues.
