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United States President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Russia has “10 days from today” to end its war on Ukraine or face U.S. penalties.
Trump announced the new deadline while speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, saying: “We’re going to put on tariffs and stuff” if Moscow does not halt the war.
“I don’t know if it’s going to affect Russia, because he wants to, obviously, probably keep the war going, but we’re going to put on tariffs and the various things that you put on, it may or may not affect them,” Trump said in an apparent reference to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
On Monday, Trump had threatened Russia with sanctions and secondary tariffs—tariffs on Russian trading partners—if it did not end the war in “about 10 or 12 days,” moving up a previous 50-day deadline. His Tuesday comments advanced that timeline, giving the Kremlin until Aug. 8.
The earlier 50-day deadline would have expired in early September.
Ahead of a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Trump expressed frustration with Putin: “Very disappointed... he goes out and starts launching rockets into some city like Kyiv and kills a lot of people in a nursing home or whatever.”
“We’re going to have to look. I’m going to reduce the 50 days that I gave him (for cease-fire with Ukraine) to a lesser number, because I think I already know the answer,” Trump added.
The Kremlin responded cautiously to Trump’s remarks.
“We have taken note of President Trump’s statement yesterday,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a press briefing in Moscow. He added that he “would prefer to refrain from any assessments” of the U.S. leader’s comments.
On July 14, Trump—who has sought to broker an end to the Ukraine war since beginning his second term in January—said he would impose 100% secondary tariffs on Russia and its trading partners if no progress toward a settlement was made. He has reportedly spoken with Putin at least six times this year.
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Meanwhile, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday expressed hope that Türkiye would once again play a central role in mediating between Russia and Ukraine, hinting at the continuation of peace efforts on Turkish soil.
“Just as the negotiation table (between Russia and Ukraine) was established in Istanbul, the peace table will also be established in Türkiye in the not-too-distant future, and this bloody war will come to an end,” Erdogan said following a Cabinet meeting in Ankara.
Russia and Ukraine held a third round of renewed peace talks in Istanbul on July 23, following earlier talks in May and June.
After the July 23 round, Ukraine proposed a meeting between the heads of state before the end of August, and both sides agreed to continue prisoner exchanges.
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