Trump shortens the 50 -day term given as Putin's ultimatum to put an end to the Ukraine war: “I already know what will happen”
Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Collage: Ion Mateș / Hotnews. Photo: Profimedia
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that he reduces the 50 -day term granted to Russia to reach a solution in the Ukraine war, a statement that underlines the frustration of the US leader towards Vladimir Putin because the Russian president extends the conflict between the two countries, writes Reuters.
“I am disappointed by President Putin,” said Trump, speaking with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer before their meeting in Scotland. “I will reduce the 50-day term that I have given to a shorter period, because I think I already know what will happen,” added the white house.
He did not give a new term.
Trump set the deadline for 50 days earlier this month. The US president has repeatedly expressed exasperation to Putin for continuing attacks on Ukraine, despite Washington's efforts to end the war.
Before returning to the White House in January, for the second term Trump, who considered himself a pacifier, had promised that he would end within 24 hours the conflict that lasts for three and a half years.
Trump has threatened new sanctions against Russia and Russian -product buyers, if an agreement will not be reached until the beginning of September.
But the US president, who expressed his term and dissatisfaction with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodimir Zelenski, did not always respect his harsh promises to Putin, invoking the good relationship that the two have had in the past.
“I thought I solved the problem countless times, and then the President Putin comes out and begins to launch rockets like Kiev and kill a lot of people in an asylum or somewhere else. You have a lot of bodies scattered everywhere,” Trump said. “I also say that this is not the case,” he added.
