Is the Trump-Putin bromance over... again?

The US president has admitted he's 'p*ssed off' with his opposite number

Photo composite of Donald Trump having a Vlad tattoo removed
The US president raged last week that Putin 'wants to go all the way and just keep killing people'
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Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin may have been closer than any of their predecessors, but it would seem their bromance has hit the rocks.

The US president raged last week that Putin "wants to go all the way, just keep killing people" and admitted he had been unable to use his "great relationship" with the Russian leader to secure a peace deal or ceasefire in Ukraine.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.