Trump says he is reducing 50-day deadline for Russia deadline
'I'm disappointed in President Putin,' he said, speaking alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer ahead of their meeting in Scotland. 'I'm going to reduce that 50 days that I gave him to a lesser number.'
He did not give a new deadline.
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