President Donald Trump says he is ready to punish Russia with a “second phase” of sanctions after it has launched his greatest barrage of drone and rocket on Sunday, damaged a cabinet building and killed a mother and her baby.
“Yes, I am,” Trump told a reporter, who asked if he is ready to continue with more sanctions after months that they have not terminated Russian President Vladimir Putin to end his military operations or meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Trump said he still has plans to chat with Putin “in the coming days”, although it remains unclear what he hopes to get from the last conversation.
A family with a baby takes shelter in a building cellar during a Russian rocket and drone attack on Kiev, Ukraine on September 7, 2025. (Yan Dobronosov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
Russia hits Ukraine with the greatest air raid of the war as conversations about peace flicker
“Look, we’re going to get it done,” he told reporters on Sunday. “The situation in Russia-Ukraine. We’re going to get it done.”
Trump said he was “not happy” with the Sunday attack of Russia, who damaged the cabinet of ministers in Kiev and killed four, including a mother and her baby, after 810 drones and 13 rockets were fired over Ukraine.
Ukraine Air Force said it neutralized 747 drones and four of the fired rockets.
“I am not happy with what happens there,” Trump said. “I believe we are going to arrange it. But I am not happy with them. I am not happy with something that has to do with that war.”
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters while the White House is leaving Washington, Sunday 7 September 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Putin warns Western troops in Ukraine would be ‘legitimate goals’
The strike came just a few days after Putin claimed that he was willing to meet Zenskyy as long as the Ukrainian leader traveled to Moscow – a movement of Western and Ukrainian officials said that not only was a dangerous proposition for Zelenskyy, but no real effort to negotiate the war.
Trump told reporters on Sunday that European leaders will also go to Washington DC this week to discuss the next steps to end the war, although he did not describe who will make the journey and whether Zenskyy would be among them.
Putin said last month that his conditions for the termination of the war would concentrate on freezing the front lines where they stand in Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia, but seemed to suggest that Ukraine would have to withdraw his forces from Donetsk and Luhansk, in the midst of other limitations.
Rescue workers extinguish a fire in an apartment building with 9 floors in the Sviatoshynskyi district, hit by a Russian drone and partially destroyed from the 4th to the 8th floor in Kiev, Ukraine on September 7, 2025. (Yan Dobronosov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
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But on Monday, the Okraine army said that it had recaptured the strategically important city of Zarichne in Donetsk – a region that was assessed Russia to occupy around 75% last month.
Zarichne is located in the vicinity of Luhansk – a region that is assessed Russia to occupy almost completely – and is close to important transport routes that connect strategically important cities in Donetsk.
Ukraine also said last month that it had made progress in areas near Pokrovsk in West Donetsk, where Russian troops have concentrated their summer Operation -efforts.
Reuters has contributed to this report.
