President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he is “not happy” with Russia’s major missile and drone attack on Kyiv, Ukraine, adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s latest offensive was “not necessary and very bad timing.”

Russia hammered the Ukrainian capital early Thursday morning, killing at least eight people and wounding around 70 more, NBC News reported. The attack was the deadliest bombing on Ukraine since last summer and comes as the Trump administration struggles to negotiate a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine and end a war that has entered its fourth year.

“I am not happy with the Russian strikes on KYIV. Not necessary, and very bad timing. Vladimir, STOP! 5000 soldiers a week are dying. Lets [sic] get the Peace Deal DONE!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Russia fired more than 70 missiles at Kyiv, 48 of which were shot down by Ukraine’s missile defense system. Kyiv was also attacked by 140 drones in the overnight bombing and shot down 64 of them, according to the Ukrainian Air Force. Six children and a pregnant woman were among the wounded.

“The search is continuing for people under rubble. … Mobile telephones are heard ringing beneath rubble. The search will continue until it becomes clear that they have got everyone,” the State Emergency Service wrote on Telegram, according to Reuters.

Trump Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is supposed to meet with Putin in Moscow this week, and it’s unclear if Russia’s attack on Kyiv will change those plans. Top Trump administration officials, including Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, have warned that the United States will walk away from negotiations with Ukraine and Russia if progress on the peace talks isn’t made soon.

After Russia’s attack on Kyiv, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said that the “brutal strikes show that Russia, not Ukraine, is the obstacle to peace.”

“Moscow, not Kyiv, is where pressure should be applied,” Sybiha added.

Trump has grown increasingly frustrated with both Putin and Zelensky, and earlier this week, he blasted Zelensky again after the Ukrainian president said his country would never recognize Russia’s occupation of Crimea. Trump called Zelensky’s comment “very harmful to the Peace Negotiations with Russia,” adding that “Crimea was lost years ago under the auspices of President Barack Hussein Obama, and is not even a point of discussion.”

The president then blasted Zelensky, saying he continues to make “inflammatory statements” that make it “difficult to settle this War.”

“He can have Peace or, he can fight for another three years before losing the whole Country,” Trump continued. “I have nothing to do with Russia, but have much to do with wanting to save, on average, five thousand Russian and Ukrainian soldiers a week, who are dying for no reason whatsoever.”

Earlier this week, The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro traveled to war-torn Kyiv for an exclusive 60-minute, face-to-face interview with Zelensky, which will be released in two parts on the Ben Shapiro Show on Thursday and Friday.

Speaking in front of the Saint Sophia Cathedral, Shapiro questioned Zelensky on several topics, including his tense March meeting with President Trump, the substantial amount of American taxpayer money Ukraine is receiving, and prospects for peace with Russia.

Thursday is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, commemorating the reputed one and a half million Armenians murdered by the Turks in 1915 during World War I.

The Turkish assault began with hundreds of Armenian intellectuals forcibly deported from the Turkish capital of Constantinople. The Muslim Young Turks intended to get rid of the Christian Armenians in Turkey. Massive atrocities, from forced death marches to placing women and children aboard ships and then deliberately sinking them, were carried out by Turkish government-backed forces.

CNN reported:

While the death toll is in dispute, photographs from the era document some mass killings. Some show Ottoman soldiers posing with severed heads, others with them standing amid skulls in the dirt. The victims are reported to have died in mass burnings and by drowning, torture, gas, poison, disease and starvation. Children were reported to have been loaded into boats, taken out to sea and thrown overboard. Rape, too, was frequently reported.

The U.S. Congress has passed resolutions acknowledging the genocide, but no U.S. administration has, likely because of concerns about relations with Turkey. Instead, the murders have been referred to as “massacres” or “crimes against humanity.”

In April 1981, soon after he was elected president, Ronald Reagan delivered a Proclamation on Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust. Speaking of the Holocaust in which the Nazis murdered six million Jews, he stated:

When America and its allies liberated those haunting places of terror and sick destructiveness, the world came to a vivid and tragic understanding of the evil it faced in those years of the Second World War. Each of those names — Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, Treblinka and so many others — became synonymous with horror.

The millions of deaths, the gas chambers, the inhuman crematoria, and the thousands of people who somehow survived with lifetime scars are all now part of the conscience of history. Forever must we remember just how precious is civilization, how important is liberty, and how heroic is the human spirit. 

He then mentioned the “genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed it.”