Trump to cut Putin's 50-day deadline for ending Ukraine war
The US president had threatened to impose 'very severe' tariffs on Russia's main trading partners if Putin did not agree to a ceasefire by September 5.
'I'm disappointed in President Putin,' Mr Trump said, speaking alongside Sir Keir Starmer ahead of their meeting at his Turnberry Golf Club in Scotland.
'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,' he said.
'You have bodies lying all over the street, and I say that's not the way to do it. So we'll see what happens with that.'
He went on: 'We're going to have to look and 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.'
Mr Trump had threatened to hit Russia's main trading partners with 100 per cent tariffs earlier this month, which includes China and India.
He made the announcement after revealing he would sell billions of dollars worth of weapons to Ukraine via Nato.
It also came after Mr Trump stepped up his public criticism of Putin, who he accused of peddling 'bulls–' about wanting to end the war.
'I've been hearing so much talk. It's all talk. It's all talk, and then missiles go into Kyiv and kill 60 people,' he said alongside Mark Rutte, the Nato Secretary General, earlier this month.
Russia and Ukraine met in Istanbul on July 23 for a third round of direct negotiations – the first such meeting in more than a month.
However, like the two meetings before it, negotiations yielded little results beyond agreements on prisoner exchanges and repatriating the dead.
The Kremlin on Friday ruled out any meeting between Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, but said the Russian president could meet Mr Trump in Beijing in September.
It comes after a Russian overnight attack injured eight residents – including a child – in Kyiv. Ukraine's air force said Russia launched 328 drones and seven missiles and that their main target was an air base in Starokostiantyniv.
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