President Donald Trump connected Monday reduced to little than 2 weeks his deadline for Russian President Vladimir Putin to either scope a peace deal with Ukraine oregon look monolithic "secondary tariffs" connected Moscow's commercialized partners.
Trump antecedently gave Putin a 50-day deadline, which was acceptable to expire successful aboriginal September.
But helium said Monday that the U.S. does not spot "any advancement being made."
"I'm going to marque a caller deadline of astir …10 oregon 12 days from today," Trump said successful Scotland alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
"I'm disappointed successful President Putin," Trump said. "Russia and Ukraine — I would person said 5 times we had a deal."
"I spoke to President Putin a lot. Got on with him precise well," helium said. "Then President Putin launches rockets into a metropolis similar Kyiv and kills a batch of radical — successful a nursing home, oregon wherever — and determination are bodies lying each implicit the streets."
Trump said helium apt volition formally denote the revision successful the deadline "tonight oregon tomorrow," adding that the U.S. would enforce sanctions on with the secondary tariffs.
"But there's nary crushed to wait. If you cognize what the reply is going to be, wherefore wait?" Trump said.
Trump imposed a 50-day deadline connected Putin connected July 14. At that time, helium said buyers of Russian exports would look tariffs "at astir 100%" if determination were nary ceasefire deal with Ukraine by September.
Trump erstwhile avoided criticizing Putin.
But successful caller months, helium has made his frustrations known arsenic Russia's warfare connected Ukraine has intensified.
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