US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he was "very disappointed" with Russian President Vladimir Putin for failing to secure a peace deal on Ukraine following their recent summit in Alaska.
"I'm very disappointed in President Putin, I can say that," Trump told the Scott Jennings radio show when asked if he felt betrayed by Putin’s response. "We had a great relationship, I'm very disappointed."
Although Trump had set a two-week deadline for progress on a peace agreement, which is set to expire later this week, he did not specify what consequences Russia might face.
The US president also dismissed concerns about a growing partnership between Moscow and Beijing, after Putin met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Tuesday ahead of a major military parade.
"I'm not concerned at all, no," Trump said. "We have the strongest military in the world by far and they would never use their military on us, believe me that would be the worst thing they could ever do."
The remarks came as Putin attended the two-day Shanghai Coopoeration Organisation (SCO) Summit in China's Tianjin this weekend, where he held talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi jinping.
He is scheduled to attend a massive military parade in Beijing on Wednesday, which will also be attended by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Earlier in the day, Putin told Xi that their countries' ties were at an "unprecedented level", during talks in Beijing ahead of a massive military parade.
Wednesday's showcase of China's might has been seized by world leaders as an opportunity to hold rare face-to-face talks, with North Korea's Kim Jong Un expected to hold summits with both Putin and Xi according to South Korean sources.
Xi himself has embarked on a flurry of diplomatic meetings this week, including attendance at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in the northern city of Tianjin -- a forum that China sees as an alternative to Western-dominated international cooperation.
Meeting Xi on Tuesday, Putin told him "our close communication reflects the strategic nature of Russian-Chinese ties, which are currently at an unprecedented level", according to a pooled live feed.
In a nod to cooperation between the two countries during the war, Putin said "we were always together then, and we remain together now".
Xi and Putin have also both met with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, as Tehran faces the reimposition of European sanctions over its nuclear programme.
The Chinese and Russian leaders criticised Western governments during the summit on Monday, where Xi slammed "bullying behaviour" from certain countries -- a veiled reference to the United States, while Putin defended Russia's Ukraine offensive and blamed the West for triggering the conflict.
"China-Russia relations have withstood the test of international changes," Xi told Putin on Tuesday.
Xi added that Beijing was willing to work with Moscow to "promote the construction of a more just and reasonable global governance system".
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