Putin ignores Trump's warning and unleashes massive 10-hour missile attack
Donald Trump has recently made it clear that he isn’t happy with Vladimir Putin and Russia has gone on to launch a major attack regardless.
Earlier this week, Donald Trump warned that Russia could face further sanction if the war in Ukraine isn’t resolved.
During a meeting with his cabinet at the White House on Tuesday (July 8), Trump said Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin was ‘killing a lot of people’ in reference to Ukrainian forces.
He also questioned Putin’s determination into having a peaceful resolution to the ongoing conflict.
He said: “We get a lot of b******t thrown at us by Putin. He’s very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.”
Earlier this year in May, Ukrainian and Russian officials met for talks in Turkey but neither side has been able to agree on a temporary truce or a longstanding ceasefire.
Despite this warning from Trump about sanctions, the Ukrainian capital has been hit overnight by 10-hour-long Russian missile and drone strikes.
Lutsk and Ternopil, situated in the west of Ukraine, were some of the heaviest-hit targets. The strike has also caused a stir amongst NATO member, Poland, who share a boarder with the west of Ukraine.
A statement from Warsaw’s armed forces command said: “In connection with the attack by the Russian Federation’s air forces carrying out strikes on objects located in the territory of Ukraine, Polish and allied aviation has begun operating in Polish airspace.”
This brutal attack on Ukraine also comes after Russia addressed reports that Trump had previously warned against an invasion of Ukraine before he returned to the White House for a second term.
According to a CNN report, during fundraisers while speaking to donors, Trump spoke of a conversation he allegedly had with the Russian leader.
This was caught in a recording where Trump reportedly said: “With Putin I said, ‘If you go into Ukraine, I’m going to bomb the sh*t out of Moscow. I’m telling you I have no choice'.
“And then [Putin] goes, like, ‘I don’t believe you.’ But he believed me 10%.”
However, it is not clear when and in which format these alleged conversations took place with the leaders.
Russia dismissed the claims reportedly from Trump that he said this to Putin.
The spokesman for the Kremlin Dmitry Peskov said: “The fact is that there were no telephone conversations then.
“After all, we are talking, as far as I understand, about the period when Trump was not yet the president of the United States.”
Russia responds after Trump threatened to 'bomb the s*** out of Moscow' in leaked audio tapes
Donald Trump reportedly threatened Vladimir Putin with a major attack and Russia has hit back against these claims.
New audio of President Donald Trump speaking to donors in 2024 has caused quite an international stir.
According to a CNN report, Trump was speaking to wealthy donors at an event prior to becoming President for a second term.
He told them how he had previously been very tough on Russian President Vladimir Putin when it came to his invasion of Ukraine.
In the recording, Trump reportedly said: “With Putin I said, ‘If you go into Ukraine, I’m going to bomb the sh*t out of Moscow. I’m telling you I have no choice.
“And then [Putin] goes, like, ‘I don’t believe you.’ But he believed me 10%.”
Trump then allegedly insisted he made similar comments when it comes to Chinese President Xi Jinping, telling him Beijing would be bombed if the nation decided to invade Taiwan.
CNN has claimed the audio tapes were from fundraisers in New York and Florida, which were later obtained by Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf, who detailed some of the exchanges in their new book, 2024.
However, it is not clear when and in which format these alleged conversations took place with the leaders.
However, Russia has now dismissed these claims as they released a statement addressing this.
The spokesman for the Kremlin Dmitry Peskov said: “The fact is that there were no telephone conversations then.
“After all, we are talking, as far as I understand, about the period when Trump was not yet the president of the United States.”
News of this alleged conversation comes after Trump recently said he was frustrated with the Russian leader.
Trump spoke to the press after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday (July 8) and expressed his anger at Putin over Ukrainian soldiers dying in their thousands.
He said: “I'm not happy with Putin. I can tell you that much right now.
"We get a lot of bulls*** thrown at us by Putin ... He's very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless."
Trump also hinted that he was considering another bill that would enact further sanctions on Russia.
As well as this, Trump noted that he has approved for more US weapons to be sent to Ukraine in their fight against Russia.
Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy responded to this indicating the need for speed in order to protect the nation and the people.
UNILAD has contacted the White House and the Kremlin for comment.
Putin issues chilling war threat as he urges world to take Trump's Greenland plans seriously
The Russian President made it clear that he would be doing what he deemed necessary to protect the sovereignty of his nation as tension rise in the Arctic.
Speaking at the International Arctic Forum on Thursday (March 27), Vladimir Putin insisted that he was dedicated to protecting the interests of Russia.
These interests seem to extend to the geopolitical goings-on in the arctic region, not just its neighbors in Europe.
During his address, Putin accused NATO member states of looking to the far north as a ‘foothold for possible conflicts’, however, he did not name any nations in particular.
He added that NATO members have been carrying out a number of military drills in the Arctic and insisted that Russia has ‘never threatened anyone in the Arctic’, but ‘we are watching recent developments very closely’.
Putin then warned these nations that he would be responding to this action by NATO members.
He said: "[The] numbers of military servicemen in the Arctic will be rising.
"We are developing our response capabilities by upgrading our military infrastructure.
"We will not allow an encroachment of the sovereignty of our country... we will protect our national interests."
Interestingly enough, he also mentioned Donald Trump and his repeated comments that Greenland should become a part of the United States.
While Trump has faced criticism for these comments, Putin insisted that they should be taken seriously.
The Russian leader said plans to annex Greenland were first raised by the US way back in the 1860s but were ultimately dismissed after being rejected by Congress.
Putin said: "It would be a grave mistake to think that this is just some eccentric talk of the new American administration, nothing of the kind.
"Those plans have deep historic roots and it is obvious that the US will continue to promote their geopolitical, military and economic interests in the Arctic.
"As for Greenland, I think that this is an issue that concerns two states and has nothing to do with us.
"However, we are concerned by the fact that the NATO countries increasingly identify the far north as a foothold for possible conflicts."
While Greenland operates as an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, Trump has insisted the US needs ownership for ‘national security and even international security’.
Despite both the Danish government and the Greenlandic government both insisting that Greenland is not up for sale, Trump still maintains he thinks he will succeed.
Speaking to reporters alongside NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, he said: "I think it’ll happen. A boat landed there 200 years ago or something.
"And they say they have rights to it. I don’t know if that’s true. I don’t think it is, actually."
Putin makes terrifying warning to European countries if nuclear war breaks out
Vladimir Putin issued a terrifying warning to Europe in the event of a nuclear war.
Earlier this week, the head of NATO stroked fears World War Three may be in the works as Secretary-General Mark Rutte bluntly urged members to hike defense costs or 'get your Russian language course out'.
The former Dutch prime minister is encouraging the the treaty to meet a Donald Trump-inspired pledge of five percent of GDP on defense amid Russia's ongoing aggression towards Ukraine, particularly addressing European nations while stating the US 'has carried too much of the burden for too long'.
"Putin's war machine is speeding up, not slowing down," Rutte said at the meeting in London.
"Wishful thinking will not keep us safe," he continued. "We cannot dream away the danger. Hope is not a strategy. So NATO has to become a stronger, fairer and more lethal alliance."
However, it's not just the NATO boss who is urging Europe to step up as Putin himself clearly has little faith in the continent when it comes to defending itself from a nuclear threat.
Speaking at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum last year, the Russian president issued a terrifying warning as Sergei Karaganov, a Russian political scientist, urged his homeland to climb 'the ladder of nuclear escalation'.
Putin admitted that the world is 'already scared' of the threat of a nuclear war, but some countries should be more afraid than others.
"If God forbid, it comes to strikes, everyone should realise that Russia has an early warning system for missile attacks. The US has it. Europe does not," he said.
"They are more or less defenceless in this sense."
He continued: "If those with whom we exchange such strikes [cease to] exist, whether the Americans will get involved in this exchange at the level of strategic weapons I doubt very much.
"The Europeans should think about it. But I assume that it will never come to that.
"We don’t have that need. Our armed forces so vastly outnumber them in conventional weapons that there is no need. I would ask you not to mention such things in vain."
The comments have come to light as the former head of the British Armed Forces during the war in Afghanistan, Colonel Richard Kemp, said Putin could become increasingly angry if NATO allies 'got more heavily involved in the defense of Ukraine'.
Speaking to LADbible, Colonel Kemp said such a move from NATO 'could prompt Russia to strike back against one or more NATO countries, maybe by missile attacks or something like that'.
"He's probably not going to be driving tanks into Western Europe, but he has people all around Europe who are ready to carry out sabotage attacks against our countries, and things like cyber attacks, which happen fairly frequently and that could be intensified," he clarified.
Still, a 2022 study found a week-long war between the US, its allies and Russia could wipe out 360 million people - while five out of eight billion would die from starvation across the world.
So here's to hoping Putin isn't it such a rush to push the big red button after all...
Dad with deadly brain cancer that kills in a year is cancer free after taking new drug
A breakthrough drug is fighting brain cancer head-on.
Glioblastoma is widely considered the deadliest form of brain cancer, killing over 10,000 Americans each year. There is no cure for the highly aggressive disease — many patients survive just nine months after diagnosis.
Ben Trotman was diagnosed with glioblastoma in October 2022 at 40.
Treatment focuses on managing symptoms and extending life via surgery to remove as much of the tumor as possible and radiation therapy and chemotherapy to destroy cancer cells.
Now, researchers from University College London Hospitals are recruiting glioblastoma patients for a trial of the immunotherapy drug ipilimumab. Sold under the brand name Yervoy, the monoclonal antibody stimulates the immune system to recognize and attack cancer cells.
Oncologists are optimistic since a UK father shows no signs of having a tumor after he took ipilimumab before his glioblastoma treatment.
Ben Trotman was diagnosed with glioblastoma in October 2022 at 40.
“The crucial element of this trial is that patients will have their immune system boosted by the drug before they have any other treatment, when they are fit and well enough to tolerate the immunotherapy,” said Dr. Paul Mulholland, the consultant medical oncologist leading the trial.
“We saw with Ben, the one patient recruited to the immunotherapy study, NeAT-GLIO, that he has had clear scans since having the treatment and the tumor hasn’t returned more than two and a half years later.”
Glioblastoma is widely considered the deadliest form of brain cancer, killing over 10,000 Americans each year.
Trotman met with Mulholland, who enrolled him in a clinical trial for ipilimumab. He was the first patient in the world — and the only person in the trial — to take the drug before glioblastoma treatment.
“Getting this diagnosis was the most traumatic experience,” said Trotman’s wife, Emily.
“We were grappling with the fact that Ben had gone from being apparently perfectly healthy to having months to live.”
After taking the drug, Ben underwent radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
Two years and eight months later, his scans are clear.
“It is very unusual to have a clear scan with glioblastoma, especially when he didn’t have the follow-up surgery that had been planned to remove all of the tumor that was initially visible on scans,” Mulholland said.
Ben and Emily Trotman wed in 2023, after he began his immunotherapy treatment.
“We hope that the immunotherapy and follow-up treatment Ben has had will hold his tumor at bay,” he added, “and it has so far, which we are delighted to see.”
In January 2023, months after his diagnosis, Ben married Emily. The couple welcomed a daughter, Mabel, earlier this year.
They enjoy taking her for walks along with their rescue dog, Jerry.
“We are trying to live as normal a life as possible,” Emily said.
“We are in a unique position of which there is no precedent and which comes with a great deal of uncertainty,” she continued. “We want to live each day as if it were our last, but we also want to plan for the future, which we hope to have.”
Researchers plan to recruit 16 glioblastoma patients like Ben over 18 months.
After taking ipilimumab, the trial participants will undergo radiotherapy and chemotherapy and perhaps surgery depending on the extent of their disease.
Dr. Paul Mulholland and Dame Siobhain McDonagh, who raised funds for the new clinical trial of ipilimumab.
The trial is being funded by Dame Siobhain McDonagh, a member of the British Parliament, whose sister died of glioblastoma in 2023.
“My beloved sister Margaret was appalled to discover that there had been no advances in brain cancer treatment for decades when she was diagnosed with glioblastoma,” McDonagh said. “Changing this was Margaret’s final campaign and one that I have continued in her memory.”
Treatment will take place at the NIHR UCLH’s Clinical Research Facility at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.
“I am delighted that this new trial, with the same immunotherapy drug I received, is going ahead and others will have the opportunity to take part,” Ben said. “It will give people newly diagnosed with glioblastoma some hope.”
