U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he was not happy with Russian President Vladimir Putin and was considering additional sanctions on Moscow, underscoring his frustration over the growing death toll in Russia's war with Ukraine.

US President Donald Trump has expressed growing frustration with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, as the war in Ukraine drags on, saying he is considering imposing new sanctions on Moscow.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he's “not happy” with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, saying that Moscow's ongoing war in Ukraine is “killing a lot of people” on both sides. The president also acknowledged that his previous suggestions that he might be able to cajole Russia's president into bringing the fighting to a close and quickly ending the war in Ukraine has “turned out to be tougher.

At least 11 civilians were killed in Ukraine in Russian attacks; meanwhile, Russia's transport minister was found dead in an apparent suicide.

The fatality was in Odesa, Zelenskyy said. Emergency responders were searching the rubble of apartment buildings that were hit in Kharkiv, he added. Moscow targeted regions across Ukraine with some 101 drones,

The stiff geopolitical tests just keep on coming for the president. With lingering and devastating tensions still simmering in the Middle East, President Donald Trump has once again set his sights on the other major geopolitical conflict somehow involving American resources.