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US President Donald Trump said on Monday he is to reduce the 50-day deadline he previously set for Russia to agree to a peace deal in Ukraine, highlighting his growing frustration with the ongoing all-out war, now well into its fourth year.<\/p>\n
Trump said the new deadline for Putin to agree to a deal would be “10 or 12 days.”<\/p>\n
“I’m disappointed in President Putin,” Trump said in comments alongside UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Scotland.<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n
“I’ve spoken to President Putin a lot, I’ve gotten along with him very well,” he said, adding that Putin “goes out and starts launching rockets into some city, like Kyiv, and kills a lot of people in a nursing home or whatever, you have bodies lying all over the street.”<\/p>\n
The US president, who boasted on the campaign trail several times that he could end Russia’s war in Ukraine within a day, said he and Putin have been close to reaching a ceasefire deal five times, but a final agreement has remained elusive.<\/p>\n
Trump’s 50-day ultimatum<\/strong><\/p>\n Earlier this month, Trump said he had given Russia 50 days to reach a peace deal or face what he described as “very severe” economic sanctions during a visit to Washington by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.<\/p>\n While some believe strict tariffs on Moscow could be a game changer, the postponement until September was seen by others as being too long.<\/p>\n Russia is making a summer push to break through the 1,000-kilometre front line, and its drones and missiles are hammering Ukrainian cities more than at any time in the past three years.<\/p>\n For Russia, Trump’s delay of new sanctions is a reprieve.<\/p>\n Ukraine’s depleted army has recently been losing more territory, but there is no sign of a looming collapse of the front line, analysts say.<\/p>\n Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he spoke to Trump on Monday, expressing gratitude for the decision to send more Patriot air defence missiles, which are vital to defending Ukrainian cities.<\/p>\n “We discussed \u2026 the necessary measures and decisions to provide greater protection for people from Russian attacks and strengthen our positions,” Zelenskyy said on Telegram.<\/p>\n “We agreed to talk more often and coordinate our steps in the future.”<\/p>\n Additional sources \u2022 AP<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 28\/07\/2025 – 15:10 GMT+2 \u2022Updated 17:55 ADVERTISEMENT US President Donald Trump said on Monday he is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[32,2000,299,332,336,657,333,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-298987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-russia","12":"tag-russias-invasion-of-ukraine","13":"tag-ukraine","14":"tag-vladimir-putin","15":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114931972510581413","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}