Trump says Putin has "gone absolutely CRAZY" | Hook News Brief

Hook News Brief | 27.05.25

Trump calls Putin “CRAZY”, rebukes Zelenskyy

Following Russia’s biggest aerial assault on Ukraine, US President Donald Trump said he’s weighing new sanctions on Moscow and said Putin had "gone absolutely CRAZY".

In a post on Truth Social, Trump also rebuked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for “doing his country no favours by talking the way he does”.

The Kremlin in response thanked the US and Trump for their assistance in launching peace negotiations but suggested Trump and others might be emotionally overloaded.

“Will remove range restrictions on weapons delivered to Kyiv”: Merz

Staying with the Russia-Ukraine war, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said that Germany, along with fellow Ukraine allies - Britain, France and the US - will remove range restrictions on weapons delivered to Kyiv for the first time.

Merz added that removing the restrictions would enable Ukraine to better defend itself against Russia and be able to hit military targets on Russian territory.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov described the decision as “dangerous”, saying it would be detrimental to reaching any sort of peace agreement.

Car ploughs into Liverpool victory parade

Moving on, celebrations in Liverpool for winning the Premier League title quickly turned tragic after a car ploughed into the crowd.

Police said four children are among the dozens of people injured with the driver, a 53-year-old white British man, being arrested.

Police added though "the incident is not being treated as terrorism”.

Israel denies Palestinian claims of ceasefire deal nod

To the latest from Gaza and a Palestinian official declared that Hamas has agreed to a proposal by US special envoy Steve Witkoff for a Gaza ceasefire, only for an Israeli official to deny that the proposal was Washington's and added that no Israeli government could accept it.

Furthermore Witkoff himself rejected the notion that Hamas had accepted his offer for a hostage deal and a ceasefire in Gaza.

And added that what he’d seen was "completely unacceptable" and the proposal being discussed was not the same as his.

Thousands of Israeli join violent, racist “Flag March” in Jerusalem

Elsewhere in Jerusalem, thousands of Israelis joined the state-funded “Flag March” through the Muslim quarter of the Old City, where large groups chanted racist slogans including “Gaza is ours”, “death to the Arabs” and “may their villages burn”.

This after far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir visited the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, a longtime flashpoint of Israeli-Palestinian tensions.

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