U.S. President Donald Trump announced Monday that he is shortening the 50-day deadline he initially gave Russia to resolve its ongoing conflict with Ukraine, signaling his growing irritation with President Vladimir Putin over the extended violence.
“I’m disappointed in President Putin,” Trump remarked during a joint appearance with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer ahead of their scheduled meeting in Scotland. “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.”
Although Trump did not state a revised timeline, this shift follows the deadline he had imposed earlier in the month. The president has consistently expressed dismay over Russia’s continued military aggression, despite diplomatic efforts by the United States.
Prior to his return to office this January, Trump, who positions himself as a diplomatic problem-solver, pledged to resolve the nearly four-year war in just one day.
He has also issued warnings about the possibility of enforcing additional economic penalties on Russia, as well as on countries that continue to buy Russian exports, should a resolution not be reached by the start of September.
Nonetheless, Trump has occasionally softened his stance toward Putin, pointing to what he believes has been a generally positive history between them. He’s also aired frustrations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
“We thought we had that settled numerous times, and then President Putin goes out and starts launching rockets into some city like Kyiv and kills a lot of people in a nursing home or whatever,” Trump said. “And I say that’s not the way to do it.”
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