President Donald Trump said on Monday that he would shorten the deadline for Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate a peace agreement with Ukraine at 10 to 12 days and threatened to take heavy import prices against the country while Russia continued to bomb Ukrainian cities.
The declaration returns from the 50 -day initial deadline that Trump gave on July 14, which would have expired in early September. The president then warned Putin that Russian exports could face prices “at around 100%” if a cease-fire contract does not take place.
“There is no reason why they are waiting for,” Trump told journalists in Scotland at a meeting with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer.
The president was notably public with his disappointment towards Russia, which pulled missiles on Ukraine on July 21, killing at least two people and injuring more than a dozen others in a Kiev metro station and set fire to an empty kindergarten, despite negotiations in progress between the two countries.
“Suddenly, the missiles fly in Kyiv … what is it?” Trump added, saying he seemed that a cease-fire agreement would occur three times. “It happened several times and I don’t like it.”
Asked by time on July 14, how far he would be ready to defend Ukraine if Putin increased the attacks despite the 50 -day deadline, Trump refused to answer: “I want to solve the war … I have a problem, and [Vice President] Jd [Vance] To a problem – these are not Americans who die, but there are many people who die and on something that should be settled … We want to defend our country, but you know, in the end, having a strong Europe is a very good thing. »»
Russia rejected the deadline for 50 days of Trump when the White House announced it earlier this month, the appellant “unacceptable”.
“I’m not so interested in talking,” said Trump on Monday about Putin. “He speaks – we have such beautiful conversations and such respectful and beautiful conversations and people die the following night with a missile that begins a city.”
In July, the president undertook to send Air Defense Missiles Patriot in Ukraine to protect against foreign attacks. Trump’s position is remarkable given a previous public disagreement between the president and the president Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in February. Trump has already expressed his frustration with regard to billions of aid that the United States has sent to Ukraine.
The president had previously promised to end the Ukraine war during his first 24 hours in power.
