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The Guardian
2 days ago
- Business
- The Guardian
Trump cuts deadline for Putin to reach Ukraine peace deal to ‘10 or 12 days'
Donald Trump's timeline for a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine has sped up, the president said while visiting Nato ally Great Britain on Monday. 'I'm going to make a new deadline of about 10, 10 or 12 days from today,' Trump said in response to a question while sitting with the British prime minister, Keir Starmer. 'There's no reason in waiting. There's no reason in waiting. It's 50 days. I want to be generous, but we just don't see any progress being made.' Russian and Ukrainian diplomats met in Istanbul last week, agreeing on little more than a prisoner exchange. Ukraine proposed a summit by the end of August between the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, but Russia's reply was that such a meeting would only be appropriate if it were to sign an agreement. The meeting was the third negotiation in Istanbul. Putin has not attended any of the talks, despite Trump's exhortations. Trump's comments in recent weeks reflect the continuing change from his almost-conciliatory posture. US diplomats asked China to stop exports of dual-use goods that the Washington says contribute to Russia's military industrial base. Trump said he was 'disappointed' in Putin earlier on Monday. '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. 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.' Two weeks ago, Trump promised a punishing round of new sanctions against Russia if Putin did not begin a ceasefire period for negotiations. An agreement for European allies to purchase billions of dollars in additional armaments for Ukraine, including Patriot missile defense systems, accompanied the 15 July statement during a meeting with Nato's secretary general, Mark Rutte. Sign up to Headlines US Get the most important US headlines and highlights emailed direct to you every morning after newsletter promotion Trump hosted Starmer and the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, at his Turnberry golf course in Scotland, where ending the war in Ukraine and trade issues have been at the top of the agenda. Before leaving Washington on Friday, Trump said that he was considering secondary sanctions on Russia amid the war in Ukraine.
The Guardian
2 days ago
- Business
- The Guardian
Trump pushes for peace deal deadline between Ukraine and Russia to ‘10 or 12 days'
Donald Trump's timeline for a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine has sped up, the president said while visiting Nato ally Great Britain on Monday. 'I'm going to make a new deadline of about 10, 10 or 12 days from today,' Trump said in response to a question while sitting with the British prime minister, Keir Starmer. 'There's no reason in waiting. There's no reason in waiting. It's 50 days. I want to be generous, but we just don't see any progress being made.' Russian and Ukrainian diplomats met in Istanbul last week, agreeing on little more than a prisoner exchange. Ukraine proposed a summit by the end of August between the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, but Russia's reply was that such a meeting would only be appropriate if it were to sign an agreement. The meeting was the third negotiation in Istanbul. Putin has not attended any of the talks, despite Trump's exhortations. Trump's comments in recent weeks reflect the continuing change from his almost-conciliatory posture. US diplomats asked China to stop exports of dual-use goods that the Washington says contribute to Russia's military industrial base. Trump said he was 'disappointed' in Putin earlier on Monday. '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. 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.' Two weeks ago, Trump promised a punishing round of new sanctions against Russia if Putin did not begin a ceasefire period for negotiations. An agreement for European allies to purchase billions of dollars in additional armaments for Ukraine, including Patriot missile defense systems, accompanied the 15 July statement during a meeting with Nato's secretary general, Mark Rutte. Sign up to Headlines US Get the most important US headlines and highlights emailed direct to you every morning after newsletter promotion Trump hosted Starmer and the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, at his Turnberry golf course in Scotland, where ending the war in Ukraine and trade issues have been at the top of the agenda. Before leaving Washington on Friday, Trump said that he was considering secondary sanctions on Russia amid the war in Ukraine.
Fox News
2 days ago
- Politics
- Fox News
Trump 'disappointed' in Putin, says he'll reduce 50-day deadline
President Donald Trump on Monday said he was "very disappointed" in Russian President Vladimir Putin and said he will "reduce" the original 50-day deadline he set earlier this month to 10-12 days from today. "I'm going to make a new deadline, of about 10, 10 or 12 days from today," Trump told reporters from Scotland. "There's no reason for waiting. It was 50 days, I wanted to be generous, but we just don't see any progress being made." Trump originally set a 50-day deadline for Putin to reach a peace deal on July 14 while meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte in Washington, D.C. But by moving up the deadline to 12-days from Monday, he cut the overall end date in half. "I'm disappointed in President Putin, very disappointed in him," Trump said Monday. "So 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." Trump's comments came just hours after Russia unleashed more than 300 drones and missiles across Ukraine, prompting not only Kyiv to scramble its Air Force, but Poland's Operational Command said it too had deployed fighter jets to the sky. "I would have said five times we would have had a deal. I've spoken to President Putin a lot," Trump told reporters, echoing his previous frustration that speaking with Putin has yielded little to no results. "But we've had discussions…we thought we had that settled numerous times. "And then President Putin goes out and such, launching rockets into some city like Kyiv and kills a lot of people in a nursing home or whatever. You have bodies lying all over the street," Trump continued. "And I say, that's not the way to do it. So we'll see what happens." No deaths have yet been confirmed from the early morning strikes that hit the capital city of Kyiv wounding at least five, including a two-year-old girl. The other strikes targeted the Khmelnytskyi region to the west of Kyiv and the Kirovohrad region to the south of Kyiv. Additional casualties have not been reported. The Ukrainian Air Force reported on Monday that 324 Shahed-type attack and decoy drones were fired along with four Kh-101 cruise missiles and three Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles. Ukraine's air defense systems reportedly shot down 309 UAVs and two Kh-101 cruise missiles. Two of the cruise missiles and 15 drones hit targets in three locations, while three of the Kinzhal missiles apparently failed to reach their intended targets. "Our unmanned defenses delivered strong results against 'Shaheds' – dozens of Russian drones were shot down. Several missiles were also intercepted overnight," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a message on X. "Unfortunately, not all of them – there were also hits. "But we are constantly strengthening Ukraine's air shield, and it is vital to maintain clear understanding among partners of how exactly they can help," he added. "Step by step, we are closing the funding gap for drone production, and I will be holding new talks with partners on this task later this week."
Free Malaysia Today
17-07-2025
- Politics
- Free Malaysia Today
Moscow, Kyiv trade deadly attacks
Russia's strikes on Ukraine killed one person in the central city of Dnipro. (Ukrainian emergency service/AP pic) KYIV : Russia and Ukraine traded another wave of drone strikes overnight, both sides said today, in attacks that killed and wounded people on either side of the frontline. Moscow has carried out nightly drone and missile barrages on Ukraine since launching its invasion in February 2022, with Kyiv responding with increasingly long-range strikes inside Russia as well as its own attacks on border areas. Russian President Vladimir Putin has rejected calls for a ceasefire and escalated his army's strikes, defying US President Donald Trump's pledge of fresh weapons for Ukraine and harsh sanctions if a peace deal is not struck soon. Russia's defence ministry said its air defences shot down 122 drones overnight, most of them in border regions. In Russia's Belgorod border region, 'a woman was killed when an explosive device was dropped from a drone onto a private house', governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on Telegram. He said three civilians had been killed a day earlier. And in the Voronezh region, which also borders Ukraine, three teens were wounded when falling drone debris struck a building, regional governor Alexander Gusev wrote on Telegram. Russia's strikes on Ukraine killed one person in the central city of Dnipro, governor Sergiy Lysak said. Russia launched 64 drones, mostly targeting the central Dnipropetrovsk region, which includes Dnipro, according to Ukraine's air force. It said it had shot down or disabled 41 of them. That was far down on recent nights, where hundreds of self-exploding attack drones have been fired at the country. Ukraine also said three people were killed and at least 27 wounded in a Russian airstrike on the frontline town of Dobropillia a day earlier.
Russia Today
13-07-2025
- Politics
- Russia Today
Istanbul talks format ‘exhausted itself'
The format of direct peace negotiations between Moscow and Kiev in Istanbul has 'practically exhausted itself' due to Russia's 'maximalist' demands, Ukrainian First Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Kislitsa has claimed. Russia and Ukraine have met for two rounds of direct negotiations in Türkiye this year, restarting talks that Kiev unilaterally abandoned in 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin's goal for the ongoing US-backed talks is to demand Kiev's surrender in the conflict, Kislitsa said in an interview with the Kiev Independent published on Friday. 'Putin's mandate is to force capitulation. Their logic is the opposite of ours,' he said, arguing that the Russian position was worse than 'maximalist.' 'Our mandate had three points: first, ceasefire,' Kislitsa said. The second was to 'create the conditions' for a meeting between Putin and Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky, and the third included 'confidence-building measures' such as humanitarian issues such as prisoner swaps, he added. Putin has not refused such a meeting, but has argued that currently any final peace agreements signed by Zelensky would be illegitimate given that his presidential term expired in May 2024. Kislitsa insisted that a direct meeting between the leaders is necessary due to the 'complexity' and 'depth' of the conflict. He also argued that Moscow aims to 'bureaucratize' the talks. 'We saw this before in the endless Minsk process groups,' the diplomat claimed. 'Endless meetings – but there were no results.' The failed Western-backed 2014-2015 Minsk Agreements were ostensibly meant to freeze the conflict between Ukraine and the breakaway republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. Both former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former French President Francois Hollande later admitted that the accords were a mechanism to stall for time and allow Kiev to rearm. Moscow has refused Ukrainian demands for an unconditional 30-day ceasefire, arguing that such a truce would be a repeat of the Minsk Agreements. Russia has maintained that any settlement needs to be permanent, legally foolproof, and it must address the core causes of the conflict. The Kremlin has also condemned French and British initiatives to deploy peacekeeping troops and fighter jets to Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire, blasting them as 'militaristic.'
