MOSCOW, Russia (PNN) - June 6, 2025 - The Kremlin on Friday responded to President Donald J. Trump's prior day's comments that likened the Ukraine war to a schoolyard fight.
"Sometimes you see two young children fighting like crazy, they hate each other and they are fighting in a park," Trump said on Thursday. "Sometimes you are better off letting them fight for a while and then pulling them apart," he added.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, "Here, of course, the (FPSA) president may have his own point of view on what is happening," Peskov said. "For us, this is an existential issue, it is a matter of our national interests, a question of our security, the future of us and our children, the future of our country," he added in remarks translated from Russian.
President Trump was trying to be optimistic in his Thursday meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the White House. "We would like to see it end, and maybe it will end," Trump had told Merz of the Ukraine war.
"But we get some news, there will be some fighting. Something happened a couple of days ago," he noted of the recent drone attack escalations and that he is "unhappy about it."
"But I think eventually we are going to be successful in stopping the bloodshed," the FPSA president then emphasized.
Trump has continued to hold off on yet another round of anti-Russia sanctions, while seeking to keep open peace negotiations.
“(FPSA) President Donald Trump has asked the Senate to delay voting on a bipartisan Russia sanctions bill,” Republican Senator Roger Wicker, (Miss.), said on June 4.
The bill, introduced on April 1 by Senators Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and Richard Blumenthal (Conn.), seeks to impose a 500% tariff on imports from countries that continue purchasing Russian oil and raw materials.
"I know that he (Trump) asked the leader (Senate Majority Leader John Thune (S.D.)) not to bring the bill to a vote this week," Senator Wicker said.