A FURIOUS Donald Trump has ordered Vladimir Putin “to get moving” and accept a ceasefire deal to finally end the war in Ukraine.
The blistering warning comes as the US president sent his peace envoy across to Moscow to meet with the Russians today and reportedly give them a final deadline to accept a truce.
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Despot Putin is set to come out of an apparent ten-day disappearance to meet with Steve Witkoff on his trip, according to Axios.
The White House envoy arrived in Russia early on Friday just hours after vile Vlad’s latest ballistic missile strike on Ukraine.
Before the pair meet for third time this year, President Trump released a scathing statement on Truth Social.
He wrote: “Russia has to get moving. Too many people ere DYING, thousands a week, in a terrible and senseless war.
“A war that should have never happened, and wouldn’t have happened, if I were President!!!”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin and Witkoff are set to discuss setting up a future meeting which directly involves the US leader.
Peskov urged the world not to celebrate the meeting as he said it isn’t likely to be a “momentous” day full of major breakthroughs.
Some analysts are expecting Witkoff to place a deadline on Putin to finally accept a ceasefire deal.
A rumoured Easter date has been in the works for some time with speculation over a possible April 30 date.
It is unclear when the Russian and US teams will meet with Putin said to be travelling back to the capital after being in St Petersburg earlier on today.
The Kremlin said he was involved in “extraordinarily important” talks over the development and modernisation of the Russian Navy.
This will involve a 8.4 trillion rubles (£76.23 billion) investment by 2035 and will finance new vessels and technologies.
Witkoff is due to be across in Oman on Saturday for talks with Iran over its nuclear programme.
It comes as Ukraine fears Trump’s pleas for peace will be ignored by Moscow once again.
Ukrainian officials and military analysts believe Russia is preparing to unleash a fresh military offensive in the coming weeks.
Officials believe Putin is determined to steal as much land as possible before ensuring any peace deal allows him to keep the seized territory.
UK Defence Secretary John Healey has also called on further support to be sent to Ukraine as a summer of fighting begins to draw closer.
Healey urged members of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group to provide more military support to Kyiv.
He said at a meeting at the Nato headquarters in Brussels: “Our job as defence ministers is to get urgent military aid into the hands of Ukrainian warfighters.
“And to those nations not making fresh commitments today, I urge you to look again, to look hard at what more you can do.”
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