U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday cut to “about 10 or 12 days” the period he is giving Russia over its war in Ukraine, voicing disappointment with President Vladimir Putin and curbing a 50-day deadline he set earlier this month on the issue.
Speaking in Scotland during talks with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Trump said: “I’m going to make a new deadline of about [...] 10 or 12 days from today. There’s no reason in waiting [...] We just don’t see any progress being made.”
Trump has repeatedly voiced exasperation with Putin for continuing attacks on Ukraine despite U.S. efforts to end the war. Before returning to the White House in January, he had pledged to end the three-and-a-half-year conflict within 24 hours.
“I’m disappointed in President Putin,” he said. “I’m going to reduce that 50 days that I gave him to a lesser number because I think I already know the answer what’s going to happen.”
Trump has threatened new sanctions on Russia and buyers of its exports unless an agreement is reached by early September, but has not always followed through on his toughest rhetoric about Putin.
“We thought we had that settled numerous times, and then President Putin goes out and starts launching rockets into some city like Kyiv and kills a lot of people in a nursing home or whatever,” Trump said. “And I say that’s not the way to do it.”
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Source: Reuters, Euronews, BBC