On Monday morning, President Trump announced he plans to shorten the timeline for Russia to agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine to within the next two weeks based on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s continued attacks on Ukrainian cities.
President Donald Trump on Monday said he was “very disappointed” in Russian President Vladimir Putin and said he will “reduce” the original 50-day deadline he set earlier this month to 10–12 days from today.
“I’m going to make a new deadline, of about 10, 10 or 12 days from today,” Trump told reporters from Scotland. “There’s no reason for waiting. It was 50 days. I wanted to be generous, but we just don’t see any progress being made.”
Trump initially set a 50-day deadline for Putin to reach a peace deal on July 14 while meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte in Washington, D.C. However, by moving up the deadline to 12-days from Monday, he cut the overall end date in half.
“I’m not so interested in talking anymore,” Trump told reporters while sitting next to British Prime Minister Kier Starmer after he said Moscow and Washington “might make a deal” ahead of the secondary sanctions set to be implemented now in less than two weeks.
“He talks – we have such nice conversations, such respectful and nice conversation. And then, people die the following night,” Trump added on Monday.
Trump’s comments came just hours after Russia unleashed more than 300 drones and missiles across Ukraine, prompting not only Kyiv to scramble its air force, but Poland’s Operational Command said it too had deployed fighter jets to the sky.
No deaths have yet been confirmed from the early morning strikes that hit the capital city of Kyiv, wounding at least five, including a 2-year-old girl. The other strikes targeted the Khmelnytskyi region to the west of Kyiv and the Kirovohrad region to the south of Kyiv.
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