US President Trump announced new weapons for Ukraine on Monday, and threatened to hit buyers of Russian exports with sanctions unless Russia agrees a peace deal in 50 days, a major shift in policy brought on by frustration with Moscow.Sitting side-by-side with Nato secretary general Mark Rutte in the Oval Office, Trump told reporters that he was disappointed in Russian President Putin. "My conversations with him are very pleasant, and then the missiles go off at night," said Trump, who indicated that Putin had repeatedly backed out of deals to bring an end to the three-year war with Ukraine. "He's fooled a lot of people," Trump said of Putin, who he called a "tough guy.

" "He fooled Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden - he didn't fool me," Trump said. Trump then said that billions of dollars in weapons would be distributed to Ukraine. "We're going to make top-of-the-line weapons, and they'll be sent to Nato," Trump said, adding that Washington's Nato allies would pay for the weapons. The weapons would include Patriot air defence missiles, which Ukraine has urgently sought to defend its cities from Russian air strikes.

"It's a full complement with the batteries," Trump said. "We're going to have some come very soon, within days... a couple of the countries that have Patriots are going to swap over and will replace the Patriots with the ones they have."Some or all of 17 Patriot batteries ordered by other countries could be sent to Ukraine "very quickly", he said.His threat to impose so-called secondary sanctions on Russia, if carried out, would be a major shift in Western sanctions policy.

Lawmakers from both political parties in the US are pushing for a bill that would authorise such measures, targeting other countries that buy Russian oil. Throughout the more than three-year-old war, Western countries have cut off most of their own financial ties to Moscow, but have held back from taking steps that would restrict Russia from selling its oil elsewhere. That has allowed Moscow to continue earning hundreds of billions of dollars from shipping oil to buyers such as China and India. "We're going to be doing secondary tariffs," Trump said. "If we don't have a deal in 50 days, it's very simple, and they'll be at 100%." A White House official said Trump was referring to 100% tariffs on Russian goods as well as secondary sanctions on other countries that buy its exports.Russia sells very little to the US, less than $5 billion in 2023, and smaller amounts since then, so tariffs would make little difference to Russia. Sanctions that punish Russia's energy sector and its customers, as a proposed Senate bill would do, would hurt Moscow much more.