President Donald Trump has been flamed live on air for letting Vladimir Putin ignore him over Ukraine seven times by a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Senator Jeanne Shaheen, the ranking member of the committee, put Trump to the sword on CNN, telling host John Berman that Putin wouldn’t respond to anything other than “strength and pressure.”

Shaheen’s hawkish rhetoric stems from a pair of fruitless summits, first with Putin and then with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the sum of which currently amounts to nil in the quest for a ceasefire.

Asked by Berman what she believed was the “current status” in the peace process, the veteran Democrat Senator for New Hampshire said: “President Trump has now allowed Vladimir Putin to blow through seven deadlines

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