Trump warns ‘Russia has to get moving’ on Ukraine talks as his envoy meets with Putin: ‘senseless war’

President Trump warned Russia Friday to get serious about talks to end its war on Ukraine as his top envoy traveled to Saint Petersburg to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“Russia has to get moving,” the president wrote on Truth Social before traveling to Walter Reed Medical Center for his annual physical exam.

“Too many people are DYING, thousands a week, in a terrible and senseless war – A war that should have never happened, and wouldn’t have happened, if I were President!!!”

Special envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Russia in hopes of pushing along peace talks that have stalled in recent weeks.

Trump officials had met with Russian and Ukrainian officials separately in Saudi Arabia weeks ago about establishing peace in the three-year war.

The meetings produced a semi-cease-fire agreement on energy infrastructure — but Russia continued firing missiles into Ukraine and Putin issued a directive to conscript 160,000 additional men before a June deadline.

Trump, who was at first hopeful of securing a peace deal, has recently turned sour on Putin, telling NBC News last month he was “pissed off” and “angry” with the Russian tyrant questioning Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s leadership in Kyiv.

“If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia’s fault — which it might not be — but if I think it was Russia’s fault, I am going to put secondary tariffs on oil, on all oil coming out of Russia,” Trump said March 30.

The Russia meeting will be the third time Witkoff has gone to Moscow to negotiate on behalf of Trump. The real estate mogul is the first top official to meet with Russian leadership since the invasion of Ukraine began on Feb. 24, 2022.

Witkoff has said he doesn’t see Putin as a “bad guy,” telling media personality Tucker Carlson in March that the “key” issues in negotiations will be the fate of Ukrainian territories currently occupied by Russia.

The State Department did not respond to an inquiry from The Post about Witkoff’s meeting.