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A SENATOR has given a brutal hint at what would happen if mad Vladimir Putin were to ignore the 50-day peace deadline – telling the tyrant to “call the Ayatollah”.
Russia has been stepping up its summer offensive campaign as Washington-mediated ceasefire talks stall – infuriating the US President, Senator Lindsey Graham revealed.
A Russian drone attack hit Kharkiv, the second-largest city in Ukraine[/caption]
Kharkiv suffered a massive drone attack[/caption]
Russia launched a large-scale strike on Vinnytsia[/caption]
Explosions rocked Ukrainian cities overnight after Vlad launched waves of drones and missiles across the war-torn nation in the latest sign the tyrant is avoiding peace.
And amidst the deadly chaos, Republican senator Graham made a chilling warning to mad Vlad that Russia would face the same fate as Iran if he doesn’t adhere to Trump’s 50-day ultimatum.
He said on X: “If Putin and others are wondering what happens on day 51, I would suggest they call the Ayatollah.
“If I were a country buying cheap Russian oil, propping up Putin’s war machine, I would take President Trump at his word.”
The clearest sign yet that Trump is done playing diplomatic games with Putin came on Monday.
He said had struck a deal with Nato to supply key American air defence systems and weapons to Ukraine.
Trump vowed to send weapons compromising of “everything” in his arsenal in order to get Putin back into line after weeks of the tyrant incessantly bombing Ukraine.
The US President also threatened Russia with blistering tariffs and sanctions if Putin doesn’t agree to a peace deal within 50 days.
Prior to the announcement, Senator Graham told Axios the US President was “really p****d at Putin” and revealed Trump’s move would be “very aggressive”.
Don has since shared that the first Patriot systems intended for Ukraine “are already being shipped” to allies.
Upon being asked which countries the missiles are coming from, Trump said they were arriving from Germany.
He added that he hadn’t spoken to Putin in two days, where he confirmed his intention to send weapons to help Ukraine – including the deadly Patriot systems.
Trump with his press secretary Karoline Leavitt[/caption]
Ukrainian firefighters try to extinguish the fires following the Russian attack on Shostka community killing two people[/caption]
A view of the damage following the Russian attack on Shostka[/caption]
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin applauds during an event last week[/caption]
Another of the proposed weapons which could be included in the package deal is America’s joint air-to-surface standoff cruise missiles (JASSM).
On Tuesday, however, he ruled out sending long-range missiles to Ukraine despite reports claiming the US would give Kyiv weapons that could strike as far as Moscow.
Upon being asked whether the US would deliver deep-strike munitions to the war-torn nation, he clarified: “No, we’re not looking to do that.”
He also warned Ukraine against attacking the Russian capital, adding: “I’m on nobody’s side. You know whose side I’m on? Humanity’s side.”
The President has spent the first seven months of his White House return urging both sides to come to the negotiating table.
But a snarling Putin has always declined and instead ramped up his ground and aerial offensives across Ukraine.
And the Kremlin’s reaction to Trump’s latest posture proves he may be set to snub the 50-day deadline.
They are said to have mocked the warning, with sources revealing they may now demand even more Ukrainian territory instead of laying down arms.
Russia will instead keep terrorising Ukrainian civilians during the seven-week period instead of surrendering in any form, they added.
A bombshell report claimed that Trump asked Zelensky if he can “make them [Russia] feel the pain” when the pair held a phone call at the start of the month.
The US President asked: “Volodymyr, can you hit Moscow? Can you hit St Petersburg too?”, according to the Financial Times, citing two sources.
Zelensky responded: “Absolutely. We can if you give us the weapons.”
But Trump soon pushed back on the reports of him enquiring about Ukraine’s next targets.
He told reporters that he has actually warned Zelensky to not even think about attacking Moscow if he ever wants the conflict to end.
Trump did not directly mention the FT report but the White House did.
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt argued Trump’s words were taken out of context as the President “was merely asking a question, not encouraging further killing”.
She continued, in a statement to the BBC: “He’s working tirelessly to stop the killing and end this war.”
It comes after the US President shared with the broadcaster he was “disappointed but not done with” mad Vlad.
Asked if he trusted Putin, Trump said after a long pause: “I trust almost nobody to be honest with you.”
Overnight, Ukraine’s Air Force made numerous alerts that Russian drones were targeting Kyiv alongside other regions – with a warning even issued of the threat of ballistic missile strikes.
Eight people were wounded in strikes on Ukraine’s central region of Vinnytsia, as large-scale fires erupted after civilian industrial facilities were hit.
Three people were also wounded in an attack on Ukraine’s second city, Kharkiv.
And a 17-year-old boy has been left fighting for his life after missile and drone strikes destroyed an industrial building in south-central Kryvyi Rig – the birthplace of brave leader Volodymyr Zelensky.
Oleksandr Vilkul, the mayor of the city, wrote on Telegram: “This has never happened before.
“A ballistic missile and 28 Shaheds simultaneously.”
Meanwhile three people were tragically killed in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, local authorities say.
By Sayan Bose, Foreign News Reporter
DONALD Trump sending long-range weapons to Ukraine could be a game-changer for the war by helping halt Vladimir Putin’s nightly blitzes, experts said.
Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, a decorated British Army commander, said the shipment of these long-range missiles would have profound “psychological and physical effects” on Ukraine.
Mr de Bretton-Gordon told The Sun: “These weapons can strike Moscow – over 400 miles from the border. That allows the Ukrainians to strike drone factory production and ammunition sites, and others.
“So this will have both psychological as well as physical effects.
“People in Moscow will realise that they potentially could be targeted.
“And when you also add to it the American bombings on Iranian sites that were supposed to be impregnable, it shows that American missile and drone technology rather superior to the Russian air defence system.”
The former army chief said these weapons will put real pressure on Russia, adding: “The metric has now changed and Trump’s decision could make a huge difference.”
Ex-military intelligence officer Colonel Philip Ingram told The Sun how these long-range weapons could help strike Russian missile and drone launchpads – the ones that are used to launch nightly attacks on Ukraine.
He said: “The Ukrainians are already attacking to hit Russian military logistics, defence industry bases.
“And with these sophisticated weapons, they will have increased capability of doing so.
“It will impact the ability of the Russians to prosecute these increasingly large drone and rocket attacks on a nightly basis.
“And then that’s the best way for the Ukrainians to stop it.”
NEW pictures show Vladimir Putin’s “secret son” Ivan looking identical to his tyrant dad as he follows in his gymnast mum’s footsteps.
The young boy, now 10, was born to the Russian dictator’s hidden glam lover Alina Kabaeva, 42, an Olympic gold medal-winning rhythmic gymnast.
Ivan Putin, the reported secret son of Russian president Vladimir Putin and his gymnast mother Alina Kabaeva[/caption]
Ivan Putin, front row and centre, the reported secret son of Russian president Vladimir Putin[/caption]
Ivan Putin, fourth from the left, resembles his tyrant dad[/caption]
New images appear to show Putin’s son at a training session in June 2025 in Valdai, where the tyrant has his favourite palace.
And pictures of Ivan in a public gymnastics performance have been revealed by anti-Kremlin Telegram channel VChK-OGPU, which in April published the first photos of a child they called “the loneliest boy in Russia”.
The channel wrote: “Ivan is in a team of boy-gymnasts with a separate number within a group performance, and the cameraman’s attention is focused on his team.
“He took part in a large [performance] called ‘Lezginka’ at a festival organised by his mother.”
Unbelievable footage shows him performing as part of the team at the ALINA 2023 event.
His mum Alina Kabaeva – a highly decorated rhythmic gymnast – runs an elite gymnastics academy and is behind training sessions in Valdai.
The channel added: “From the numerous photos […] of the sports team for which Ivan competes, you can see that one of its members is not an ordinary boy.
“During performances, training, and other events that take place indoors, there are eight people in the team.
“Alina Kabaeva is often present in the photo of the eight, she is behind one of the boys.”
The channel said Ivan doesn’t appear to have taken part in “mass events” since 2023, but he still features in his team’s pictures.
Swiss-born Ivan – who resembles mad Vlad in his Soviet childhood – has a younger brother Vladimir junior, now five, who is yet to be pictured.
Ivan, just like his mum, appears to be accomplished as a young gymnast, and competed in the same festival where fellow contestants were from countries like China, Cuba, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Belarus.
A message posted by his club stated their gymnasts showed an “excellent level of training and the ability to work in a team”.
It added: “Hours of training and rehearsals were not in vain! We are proud!!”
Putin has never confirmed the young family he has with Kabaeva – who is three decades younger than him.
However, in a random moment last year, he confessed to watching Russian fairytale movies with “[his] little ones”.
Putin told reporters: “Our historic fairytales and epic tales are being revived.
“I myself sometimes watch these with pleasure with my little ones.”
The children are thought to be from the tyrant’s relationship with glamorous gymnast partner Alina Kabaeva (pictured)[/caption]
Ivan Putin, fourth the left, takes part in gymnastic competitions[/caption]
Swiss-born Ivan has a younger brother called Vladimir[/caption]
Ivan Putin, third from the left in the front row is pictured alongside his mother, gymnast Alina Kabaeva[/caption]
Russian president Vladimir Putin seen as primary school pupil, left, and in his early teenage years[/caption]
A flicker of a smile appeared on the tyrant’s face as he mentioned them.
Despite Putin and the Kremlin vehemently denying a relationship between him and glamorous Kabaeva, independent Russian journalists have established they have two sons together.
Until now, the children have never been seen and live out of sight behind his high-security palace walls.
Putin also has another secret daughter Ekaterina Krivonogikh, 22 – aka Luiza Rozova – born to his former mistress, cleaner-turned-multimillionaire Svetlana Krivonogikh, 50.
She holds shares in a top bank and owns a prominent St Petersburg strip club.
Luiza is known to have lived in the West – in Paris – during the war in Ukraine.
Putin is highly secretive about his private life.
“I do not permit interference. It must be respected,” divorced Putin barked in one interview.
He deplored “those who with their snotty noses and erotic fantasies prowl into others’ lives”.
Kabaeva in 2004 posed almost nude – except for furs – for Maxim magazine in Russia and was described as “full of sex” by a photographer.
Earlier – after being temporarily banned in a doping scandal in 2001 – she was photographed naked but for strategically-placed lilacs as part of a Russian project “Twelve Months” by Ekaterina Rozhdestvenskaya.
Later, she appeared on a Russian show called One Hundred Questions for Adults when she was questioned about her private life by an audience of children.
In one clip, was asked by a young boy if she had met her “ideal man” to which she replied giggling: “I have.”
She was then asked who the mystery man in her life was but would only reveal “he’s a very good man, a great man,” adding: “I love him very much”.
Last year Dossier Centre investigative news outlet confirmed the longstanding speculation that Kabaeva had two sons with Putin.
Astonishingly, the boys secretly have had British and New Zealand citizens as governesses, but now due to Putin’s war, the Russian ruler recruits South African citizens to teach English to his heirs.
The children live under the permanent guard of FSO [Federal Protective Service] officers.
“The brothers have little contact with their peers and see little of their parents, but they appreciate the rare moments they manage to spend with their father,” said Dossier Centre.
They don’t attend schools and are taught in Putin’s palaces like the royal children of the last Russian tsar.
PUTIN and his alleged gymnast lover were first linked 15 years ago after a report in a Moscow newspaper run by media tycoon and former KGB spy Alexander Lebedev.
The despot was still married to his first wife at the time, Lyudmila Putina, whom he later divorced in 2014.
Kabaeva, who is 31 years younger than Putin, shot to fame as “Russia’s most flexible woman” and went on to become one of Russia’s most decorated gymnasts in history.
Around the time they first met, Alina was asked on a kids’ TV show whether she had found her “ideal man”.
And without naming the Russian leader, Alina replied giggling: “I have met him” and added that she was “so happy”.
“A man, a very good man, a great man,” she said, adding: “I love him very much.”
Russian state media bans any mention of links between the two and Putin is said to be ferociously private about their relationship.
“I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected,” he barked in one interview.
He deplored “those who with their snotty noses and erotic fantasies prowl into others’ lives”
A Moscow source previously told The Sun: “Putin is an intensely private man – he has been hiding his two adult daughters under fake IDs for years.
“Even now, though he talks about them occasionally, he never names them.
“If Alina gave birth to his children, her hiding away might be one of the strongest hints pointing to this.
“He is obsessive about the security of his family.”
In 2016, Kabaeva appeared in public wearing a ring on her ring finger, which she seemed to attempt to hide from the cameras.
She was wearing the ring again during a rare TV interview, where she failed to shed any new light on her alleged relationship with the Kremlin leader, whose name wasn’t mentioned.
In February 2017, Kabaeva made another public appearance, apparently showing off the ring at a gymnastics tournament in Moscow.
Months later, she teased Russians yet again by showing off what appeared to be a wedding ring on an outing in Italy.
Vladimir Putin’s Valdai residence where the children are said to be being raised[/caption]
DONALD Trump could send Ukraine a set of incredibly powerful cruise missiles to help scare Vladimir Putin into agreeing to a peace deal.
The US President sent the Russian despot a major warning on Monday urging Vlad to negotiate with Ukraine or face serious repercussions.
A US B-1B Lancer carrying a JASSM which has a 450kg warhead[/caption]
The JASSM cruise missile has an impressive range of up to 230 miles and is armed with a 450kg warhead[/caption]
Russian attacks have continued to prove deadly in recent weeks with Donald TRump finally saying he has had enough – pictured Shostka[/caption]
A raging Trump also announced he has agreed to send “top of the line weapons” used by the US over to Nato so they can deploy them in Kyiv.
It has also been revealed that Trump reportedly asked Volodymyr Zelensky whether Kyiv could strike Russia’s two biggest cities with US firepower.
But Putin’s propagandist warned that Trump’s missile threats will only force Russia to “turn Kyiv and Lviv into Hiroshima and Nagasaki”.
Trump vowed to send weapons compromising of “everything” in his arsenal in order to get Putin back into line after weeks of the tyrant incessantly bombing Ukraine.
One of the proposed weapons which could be included in the package deal is America’s joint air-to-surface standoff cruise missiles (JASSM).
President Trump is said to be considering supplying the rarely used Lockheed Martin devices to help Ukraine, according to defence news website Military Watch.
The standard AGM-15 JASSM has an impressive range of up to 230 miles and is armed with a 450kg warhead.
They are also known for their excellent radar-evading capabilities as they can fly at low altitudes.
And Kyiv already boasts the ideal aircraft to carry and deploy the cruise missiles with their fleet of F-16 fighter jets.
The US President even has past experience using the powerful weapons as they were deployed by US fighter jets in the assassination of Abu Bakr-al Baghdadi, the leader of Isis, back in 2019.
The JASSM would be seen a major escalation in US support for Ukraine with Kyiv only having one other air-launched cruise missile in its arsenal.
The Anglo-French Stormshadow is a key component for the Ukrainian military but it has a range of 155 miles – 75 miles less than what Trump can offer.
Due to the range of the JASSMs, it mean that Ukraine could strike at least 30 Russian airbases from the Ukrainian border.
The cruise missiles would also act as a useful tool as Ukrainian pilots could take much more of a risk by flying into Russian airspace and getting closer to the enemy.
Volodymyr Zelensky would be likely to use the huge warheads to cause extensive damage to Russian ammunition dumps and specialist commands HQs across Russia.
This would allow them to slow down any upcoming Russian advances.
The JASSM first entered service in 2003 and is still regarded as a top level weapon.
Just four countries across the globe actually possess them currently – including the US and Poland.
The US President sent Putin a major warning on Monday urging Vlad to negotiate with Ukraine or face serious repercussions[/caption]
The move from Trump is in response to Putin’s continued aggression with the tyrant attacking Ukraine most nights – pictured Dnipro left in rubble[/caption]
Trump praised Ukraine for showing ‘tremendous courage’ but warned they are losing equipment fast[/caption]
It comes as the world continues to wait to see which weapons the US will send across to their Nato allies in the coming weeks.
Trump met Nato chief Mark Rutte in the White House on Monday alongside Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio as he announced the deal.
President Trump said: “We’ve made a deal today where we are going to be sending them weapons, and they’re going to be paying for them.
“This is billions of dollars worth of military equipment which is going to be purchased from the United States… going to Nato, and that’s going to be quickly distributed to the battlefield.”
Surface-to-air Patriot missile systems and batteries are said to be among the equipment being sent.
A furious Trump also said he is “very unhappy” with Russia as he warned of 100 per cent secondary tariffs on Moscow should they continue to attack Ukraine.
The President has spent the first seven months of his White House return urging both sides to come to the negotiating table.
But a snarling Putin has always declined and instead ramped up his ground and aerial offensives across Ukraine.
Trump’s direct put down of Russia’s tyrant is among his strictest warnings to date.
Nato boss Rutte praised Trump’s move as a game changer.
by Sayan Bose, Foreign News Reporter
DONALD Trump sending long-range weapons to Ukraine could be a game-changer for the war by helping halt Vladimir Putin’s nightly blitzes, experts said.
Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, a decorated British Army commander, said the shipment of these long-range missiles would have profound “psychological and physical effects” on Ukraine.
Mr de Bretton-Gordon told The Sun: “These weapons can strike Moscow – over 400 miles from the border. That allows the Ukrainians to strike drone factory production and ammunition sites, and others.
“So this will have both psychological as well as physical effects.
“People in Moscow will realise that they potentially could be targeted.
“And when you also add to it the American bombings on Iranian sites that were supposed to be impregnable, it shows that American missile and drone technology rather superior to the Russian air defence system.”
The former army chief said these weapons will put real pressure on Russia, adding: “The metric has now changed and Trump’s decision could make a huge difference.”
Ex-military intelligence officer Colonel Philip Ingram told The Sun how these long-range weapons could help strike Russian missile and drone launchpads – the ones that are used to launch nightly attacks on Ukraine.
He said: “The Ukrainians are already attacking to hit Russian military logistics, defence industry bases.
“And with these sophisticated weapons, they will have increased capability of doing so.
“It will impact the ability of the Russians to prosecute these increasingly large drone and rocket attacks on a nightly basis.
“And then that’s the best way for the Ukrainians to stop it.”
He said it would allow Ukraine to access “really massive numbers of military equipment” for air defence, missiles and ammunition.
Rutte said the plan means Ukraine will finally be able to maintain its defences against Russia, with European allies footing the bill – something Trump called “totally logical.”
Trump praised Ukraine for showing “tremendous courage” but warned they are losing equipment fast.
It comes as Russia continues to pound Ukrainian cities with missiles and drones on a nearly-nightly basis.
Frustration has been mounting in recent weeks, particularly following a July 3 phone call with Putin, in which the Kremlin tyrant reportedly told Trump he planned to escalate operations to seize full control of occupied Ukrainian territories within 60 days.
“He wants to take all of it,” Trump told French President Emmanuel Macron shortly afterwards, according to a source cited by Axios.
That phone call was reportedly a turning point.
In the days that followed, Trump intervened to restart US weapons deliveries that had been paused by the Pentagon and vegan crafting a weapons package that appears to include long-range missiles.
Due to the range of the JASSMs, it mean that Ukraine could strike at least 30 Russian airbases from the Ukrainian border[/caption]
Surface-to-air Patriot missile systems and batteries are said to be among the equipment being sent by the US[/caption]
