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Trump sick of ‘tiresome’ Putin

President fears Russia is ‘playing for time’ rather than seeking Ukraine peace say White House sources

Rob Crilly Chief US Correspondent

09 January 2026 11:54am GMT

Donald Trump is growing increasingly frustrated with Vladimir Putin and sees him as a bigger obstacle to peace in Ukraine than Volodymyr Zelensky, according to sources.

They said the US president’s decisions to seize a Russian-flagged oil tanker and support a new sanctions bill were a signal to Putin that he was running out of time to bring an end to the war.

The source, who is close to the US president’s inner circle, said: “He works around a carrot and stick approach. And I think he’s all out of carrots.”

Another source said Mr Trump’s found the Russians’ “two steps forward, one step back” strategy in talks increasingly “tiresome”.

Mr Trump has spoken warmly in the past about Putin and said Ukraine was to blame for the war. However, several current and former Washington officials said the Trump administration’s thinking was becoming more in line with the European view that Putin was playing for time.

On Wednesday, American special forces risked a confrontation with Moscow when they boarded a Russian registered tanker flagged for sanctions violations.

Hours later, the White House confirmed that Mr Trump had “greenlit” a sanctions bill during a meeting with Lindsey Graham, one of the most high-profile Russia hawks in the Senate.

The legislation would give the president extraordinary powers to isolate Russia, including the ability to impose 500 per cent tariffs on goods imported from countries that purchase Russian oil, petroleum products or uranium.

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USCGC Munro shadows the Bella 1 for two weeks and is escorted by a Russian navy ship and submarine

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RAF typhoons jets track Bella 1, flying over the tanker on Tuesday afternoon

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US troops practise rappelling from a V-22 Osprey off Felixstowe in Suffolk on Tuesday

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Poseidon turns off transponder during flight over tanker in Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday

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RAF RC-135 Rivet Joint spycraft deployed to locate Russian assets near the tanker

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Three Pilatus U-28A Draco aircraft launched from RAF Mildenhall, stopping at Wick Airport in Scotland en route to Reykjavik

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Boeing KC-135T Stratotanker deployed and UK's RFA Tideforce deployed for refuelling

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US Navy SEALs flown by the "Night Stalkers" airborne regiment on the MH-6 'Little Bird' helicopter rappel and board vessel. US European Command announces the seizure of the tanker

One former official said: “What is tiresome to the administration is ... that the Russians use a two steps forward, one step back strategy ... they seem like they’re ready, then when things come up that we thought they would be amenable to they either ramp things up, or they stop talking for a while.”

Ukraine had, he said, been more amenable to compromise.

Mr Trump has blown hot and cold with both sides in the Russia-Ukraine war as he tries to make good on a campaign promise to secure peace.

Frequent claims that he believes Putin is serious about finding peace in Ukraine have alarmed Mr Zelensky’s allies in Europe. They point out that warm conversations between the two leaders were often followed by missile and drone attacks.

Russia launched ballistic missiles and drones on Kyiv, killing at least one person, a day before Mr Zelensky met Mr Trump at Mar-a-Lago at the end of last year.

A British official said the result was that the Trump administration’s mindset was closer to the European view of the conflict than ever before. He said: “Putin’s sustained brutality, nefarious behaviour and game playing do not go unnoticed by the administration.”

David Lammy, the British deputy prime minister, met vice president JD Vance at the White House on Thursday. Talks were expected to centre on a US offer to support security guarantees to protect Ukraine if Russia were to attack again.

Right on cue, Putin’s foreign ministry denounced the plans and said any Western troops deployments in Ukraine would be viewed as “legitimate targets”.

A spokeswoman said: “The Russian Foreign Ministry warns that the deployment of military units, military facilities, warehouses, and other infrastructure of Western countries on the territory of Ukraine will be classified as foreign intervention.”

Russia then fired an Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missile at Lviv. The city is hundreds of miles from the front line but, crucially, just 40 miles from the border with Nato and EU member Poland. Ukraine said it was a test for the transatlantic community.

Mr Trump signalled his personal irritation with Putin during a recent press conference at Mar-a-Lago, Florida. He said: “I’m not thrilled with Putin, he’s killing too many people.”

A day later he contradicted Russian claims that Ukraine had targeted one of Putin’s residences with drone. He told reporters on Air Force One: “I don’t believe that strike happened. We don’t believe that happened, now that we’ve been able to check.”

A former White House official said Mr Trump was also “emboldened” by the special forces raid to capture Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela. He said: “It was the sort of operation that only the United States – or maybe Israel – could have carried out.”

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However, previous moves to get tough on Moscow have often been followed by a relaxing of pressure. And a member of Mr Trump’s national security council during his first term said the latest twist was part of the usual ebb and flow of a policy still focused on talking with the Kremlin.

He said: “I think this is an operational versus strategic question. He may push back harder on certain operational things but his strategic desire to end the Ukraine war quickly seems unchanged.”

Anna Kelly, a White House spokeswoman, said Mr Trump’s aim remained the same. She said: “President Trump is focused on getting this war settled and ending the senseless killing that was brought on by Joe Biden’s incompetence.”

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