Donald Trump says American efforts to bring Russia and Ukraine to peace are going “fine,” but appears cognizant that Russian President Vladimir Putin may be only pretending to engage in good faith.
“We’ll find out whether or not he’s tapping us along or not and if he is, we’ll respond a little bit differently but it will take about a week and a half to two weeks,” the U.S. president said Wednesday in response to reporters’ questions at the White House. “They seem to want to do something, but until the document is signed I can’t tell you. Nobody can.”
“I can say this: I’m very disappointed at what happened a couple of nights now, where people were killed, in the middle of what you would call a negotiation,” he continued, adding later: “When I see rockets being shot into cities, that’s no good. We aren’t going to allow it.”