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Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump on Thurs­day of­fered rare crit­i­cism of Vladimir Putin, urg­ing the Russ­ian leader to “STOP!” af­ter a dead­ly bar­rage of at­tacks on Kyiv, Ukraine’s cap­i­tal.

“I am not hap­py with the Russ­ian strikes on KYIV. Not nec­es­sary, and very bad tim­ing. Vladimir, STOP! 5,000 sol­diers a week are dy­ing,” Trump said in a post on his Truth So­cial plat­form. “Let’s get the Peace Deal DONE!”

Rus­sia struck Kyiv with an hours-long bar­rage of mis­siles and drones. At least nine peo­ple were killed and more than 70 in­jured in the dead­liest as­sault on the city since last Ju­ly.