US President Donald Trump said the deadline for Russia starts from today.
“Ten days from today. And then we will impose duties. Although I don’t know if it will affect Russia, because he (Putin – ed.) obviously wants to apparently, apparently, continue the war,” the president told reporters aboard Air Force One.
On 28 July, the US president said he was “very disappointed” with Putin and would “shorten” his previously announced 50-day deadline by which the Russian leader was expected to agree to peace talks because, in his view, “he already knows the answer” to his proposals and what will happen. Trump said he would set a new deadline of about “10 to 12 days from today (28 July – ed.)”.
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said afterwards that such words of the US president bring him closer to war with Russian Federation.
“Every new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war. Not between Russia and Ukraine, but with his own country,” Medvedev wrote in social network X.
Trump gave Putin 50 days on July 14, harshly criticising Russia and Putin personally for not wanting to achieve peace. After that deadline, which expires on 3 September, Trump has said he is prepared to impose sanctions, primarily high duties on Russia itself and those countries that buy energy from it. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in an interview with Fox News that, in particular, without the support of China, which buys oil from Russia, Putin “could not have sustained this war.”