US President Donald Trump announced the shortening of the 50-day deadline he had given Russia for the war in Ukraine. The deadline will be reduced to ten or twelve days, starting Monday, Trump said at a press conference after a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday.
Trump criticized the lack of progress toward a ceasefire. Earlier on Monday, Trump had expressed disappointment with Putin, A2 writes.
"I'm going to put a new deadline of about 10 or 12 days starting today, there's no reason to wait. It's 50 days, I want to be generous, but we just don't see any progress being made. So what I'm doing is we're going to put secondary sanctions in place - if we don't make a deal, we might make a deal, I don't know. Yeah, I would say 10 to 12 days. I'll announce it maybe tonight or tomorrow, but there's no reason to wait. If you know what the answer is going to be, why wait? And it would be sanctions and maybe tariffs, secondary tariffs - you know what a secondary tariff is," Trump said.
In mid-July, Trump gave Putin a 50-day deadline to end the war in Ukraine. If there was no "deal" for peace in Ukraine within 50 days, Trump said, the US would impose "tariffs of close to 100 percent."
These are said to be so-called secondary sanctions against countries like China, India and Brazil, which continue to buy cheap oil and gas from Russia.
But former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev dismissed Trump's tariff announcements. If Trump threatened to shorten the deadlines to force Russia to withdraw from the conflict with Ukraine, he should remember that any ultimatum is a step towards war, Medvedev wrote on the X platform. The deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, responded to Senator Lindsey Graham that it is not up to him or US President Donald Trump to decide when to "sit down at the negotiating table" to resolve the Ukrainian conflict.
“Trump is playing the ultimatum game with Russia: 50 days or 10… He should remember 2 things: Russia is not Israel or Iran. Each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war. Not between Russia and Ukraine, but with his own country. Do not follow the path of grandfather. Neither you nor Trump can determine when to ‘sit down at the negotiating table’. Negotiations will end only when all the goals of our military operation are achieved. Deal with America first, grandfather,” Medvedev wrote on X.
The 59-year-old, as head of the National Security Council, continues to exert considerable influence in Moscow and constantly attracts attention with aggressive and threatening gestures. (A2 Televizion)
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