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US president says he is ‘disappointed’ with lack of progress towards ending war
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Moscow has “noted” US president Donald Trump’s decision to cut his deadline on a Ukraine ceasefire from 50 days to “10 to 12”.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia would continue to pursue what it calls its special military operation despite Mr Trump’s new deadline.
It comes after at least 22 people were killed in a Russian strike on a Ukrainian prison camp and hospital in parts of Ukraine overnight.
The prisoners were killed after Russian troops dropped 8 FAB bombs on the jail in Zaporizhzhia, according to regional authorities. Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff Andriy Yermak called it “another war crime”.
Meanwhile, US president issued the new deadline for Vladimir Putin, which will expire on either 5 or 7 August, saying he was “disappointed” in the Russian leader.
“All I know is we’d have a good talk… and all of a sudden missiles are flying into Kyiv,” Mr Trump said at his golf course in Turnberry, Scotland, on Monday. “This has happened on too many occasions, I don’t like it.”
Trump previously set a 50-day deadline starting 14 July for Putin to avoid what he described as “very severe tariffs” during a meeting in the Oval Office with Nato secretary general Mark Rutte.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has praised Donald Trump’s new 10 to 12 day deadline for Vladimir Putin as “extremely significant”.
“And it is true: it is Russia who is doing everything to undermine peace efforts and drag out the war,” Mr Zelensky said.
“Peace through strength is possible. Ukraine, as always, is ready to work with America, with President Trump, in the most productive way possible, to end this war with dignity and lasting peace.”
On Monday, Mr Trump said he was disappointed within Mr Putin and had cut his original 50 day deadline for the Russian leader to stop the war, starting 14 July, to 10 to 12 days.
This would make the deadline either 5 or 7 August. Mr Trump has threatened heavy sanctions and tariffs on the Russian economy.
Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev warned that Donald Trump’s latest statement on the war in Ukraine could escalate into a broader conflict.
In a post on X, Medvedev said Trump was playing “the ultimatum game” with Russia and added, “each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war. Not between Russia and Ukraine, but with (Trump’s) own country.”
Mr Trump said on Monday he was disappointed in President Vladimir Putin’s failure to end the war and reduced his proposed deadline for a peace deal from 50 days to 10 or 12.
The Kremlin said on Tuesday it had “taken note” of a statement by US President Donald Trump that he was shortening his deadline for Moscow to agree an end to the war in Ukraine or face new sanctions on Russia and buyers of its exports.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Russia was continuing to pursue what it calls its special military operation in Ukraine but was also committed to a peace process that would resolve the conflict and secure its interests.
The Russian bombing of a civilian prison in Ukraine was deliberate, Volodymyr Zelensky said.
“The Russians could not have been unaware that they were targeting civilians in that facility. It was a deliberate strike, intentional, not accidental,” he said.
“And this was done after a completely clear position was voiced by the United States – a position supported by the world – that Russia must end this war and move to diplomacy.”
A pregnant woman was killed in Russian strikes on a Ukrainian hospital, Volodymyr Zelensky said.
The 23-year-old was killed in a missile attack on Kamyanske, alongside two others at around 2am on Tuesday.
While Trump has often used tariffs — import taxes paid by American importers on foreign goods — as a general-purpose cudgel against adversaries and allies alike, Russia has almost no current trade relationship with the United States on account of punishing sanctions imposed by the previous Biden administration to punish Moscow in the years since the war began.
The tariffs the president is threatening to impose this time would actually be secondary sanctions meant to punish countries purchasing Russian oil — by taxing imports from those nations at levels as high as 100 percent.
They could effectively double the cost of imports from places such as China, India and Germany as all three are major U.S. trading partners that still purchase Russian petroleum products.
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