TURNBERRY, Scotland: US President Donald Trump mentioned on Monday (Jul 28) he was setting a brand new 10 or 12-day deadline for Russia over its conflict in Ukraine, underscoring his frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin for prolonging combating between the 2 sides.
Talking in Scotland, the place he’s holding conferences with European leaders and enjoying golf, Trump mentioned he was disillusioned in Putin and shortening a 50-day deadline he had set on the problem earlier this month.
“I’ll make a brand new deadline of about … 10 or 12 days from at present,” Trump informed reporters throughout a gathering with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. “There isn’t any cause in ready … We simply do not see any progress being made.”
The US president has repeatedly voiced exasperation with Putin for persevering with assaults on Ukraine regardless of US efforts to finish the conflict.
Earlier than returning to the White Home in January, Trump, who views himself as a peacemaker, had promised to finish the three-and-a-half-year-old battle inside 24 hours.
“I am disillusioned in President Putin,” Trump mentioned on Monday. “I’ll scale back that fifty days that I gave him to a lesser quantity as a result of I believe I already know the reply what is going on to occur.”
There was no rapid remark from the Kremlin.
Trump has threatened new sanctions on Russia and consumers of its exports except an settlement is reached by early September.
However the president, who has additionally expressed annoyance with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has not at all times adopted up on his powerful speak about Putin with motion, citing what he deems a great relationship that the 2 males have had beforehand.
“We thought we had that settled quite a few instances, after which President Putin goes out and begins launching rockets into some metropolis like Kyiv and kills lots of people in a nursing dwelling or no matter,” Trump mentioned. “And I say that is not the best way to do it.”
