US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he was "very disappointed" in Russian President Vladimir Putin and added, without elaborating, that his administration was planning to take some actions to bring down deaths in Russia's war in Ukraine.
The Republican leader also said he was not concerned about warm ties between Russia and China. Trump held a summit with Putin in Alaska in mid-August and subsequently met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and key European and NATO alliance leaders at the White House.
Following those meetings, Trump said he expected Zelenskiy and Putin to hold a bilateral meeting before a trilateral meeting that would also include Trump. Zelenskiy has said Russia was doing everything it could to prevent a meeting between him and Putin, while Russia says the ag