The clip —shared by Julia Davis, the creator of Russian Media Monitor—showed Trump taking a reporter's question on Tuesday in which he was asked about how he had expressed his unhappiness with Putin, who has repeatedly stalled on U.S. ceasefire proposals and stepped up drone attacks on Ukraine.

Russia, however, has not taken kindly to Trump's threats. "President Trump's statements are perceived not as a signal for peace, but as a signal for the continuation of the war,"