Trump tells Putin: ‘We’re ‘right off their shores’

President Trump rattled an angry saber at Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday reminding the communist leader that the United States has state-of-the-art submarines and weaponry right off their shores We have a nuclear submarine the greatest in the world right off their shores and so we don t need to go miles Trump reported aboard Air Force One as he prepared to go to Japan The president s remarks came after Putin facing pressure from the White House to give up the war with Ukraine boasted about the test flight of a nuclear powered missile capable of traveling at least miles Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov reported the Burevestnik was tested on Oct according to footage of a meeting with military commanders posted on the Kremlin s Telegram channel The weapon which flew for about hours is capable of evading missile-defense networks he disclosed Trump responded Monday with irritation when requested about the test You ve got to get the war ended a war that should have taken one week is now in its soon fourth year That s what you ought to do instead of testing missiles he stated Putin discussed the Burevestnik with Gerasimov after plans for a Budapest peace summit with Trump collapsed a week after being floated by the U S leader The U S instead imposed sanctions on Russia s two largest oil producers Rosneft and Lukoil while also renewing discussions in Washington about potentially supplying Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine Putin previously called the accomplishable deployment of Tomahawks in Ukraine an escalation Dressed in military uniform Putin called the new weapon unique and reported the missile s class needed to be determined and infrastructure prepared so that it can be deployed A large amount of work needed to be conducted before that could be done Putin added The Burevestnik which means storm petrel in Russian is the world s first nuclear-powered missile That propulsion gives it virtually unlimited range allowing it to loiter for days circling the enemy s air defenses and attacking from an unexpected direction Putin first stated the missile in a state-of-the-nation address along with several other prospective weapons declaring it would be able to dodge air defenses The rise of the Burevestnik which has been code-named Skyfall by NATO has continued despite stated launch failures Multiple Western experts have been highly skeptical about Russia s ability to build such a missile with a few describing it as a flying Chernobyl due to radiation hazards A accident killed at least five nuclear engineers and injured several others in an explosion that the U S deduced occurred when Russian experts tried to recover a Burevestnik prototype that had crashed into the White Sea during an earlier test The local administration in a city near the site of the explosion disclosed a brief rise in radiation levels Discussing the status of Russia s ground war in Ukraine Gerasimov notified Putin that Kremlin forces had encircled the city of Kupyansk in the northeast Kharkiv region The Ukrainian General Staff declared the military was repelling attacks in the Kupyansk area and that two settlements north of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region had been retaken over the past several days The various contends couldn t be independently verified In Kyiv itself at least three people were killed in a Russian attack overnight according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy The strike followed ballistic missile and drone barrages the previous night that claimed two lives in the capital and two more in Dnipropetrovsk Every Russian strike is an attempt to inflict as much damage as viable on ordinary life Zelenskyy explained on social media platform X This week they ve been striking residential buildings our people children and civilian infrastructure These are the main targets for the Russians At least others were wounded in the attack Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko stated Sunday on Telegram Russia launched drones at Ukraine with downed according to the country s air defense forces The Russian Defense Ministry commented it had intercepted Ukrainian drones in a five-hour period on Sunday On Monday Putin also endorsed the Kremlin-controlled parliament s decision to withdraw from a agreement with the U S on disposing of vast Cold War-era stockpiles of weapons-grade plutonium over what lawmakers described as new anti-Russian moves that radically change the strategic balance While declaring his readiness to keep talking to Trump about a prospective Ukrainian settlement Putin also described the new U S sanctions against Russia s top oil companies as an unfriendly act that would damage relations He warned that Russia wouldn t be intimidated It s an attempt to exert pressure on Russia but no self-respecting country and self-respecting people make any decisions under pressure he reported Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks while visiting one of the command posts of the Joint Group of Forces Russian Presidential Press Office via AP