Trump says he is shortening deadline for Putin to succeed in Russia-Ukraine ceasefire to only 10 or 12 days

President Trump introduced Monday a big tightening of his deadline for Russia’s Vladimir Putin to comply with a ceasefire with Ukraine. He mentioned as he met with U.Okay. Prime Minister Keir Starmer throughout his go to to Scotland that the 50-day deadline he introduced earlier this month can be decreased to lower than two weeks, citing an absence of progress in negotiations. 

Mr. Trump mentioned as he headed in for his assembly with Starmer that he was “very dissatisfied” in Russia’s chief over the continuing bombing of Ukrainian cities, and that the deadline he gave Russia a pair weeks in the past to comply with a truce can be decreased.

Mr. Trump mentioned earlier this month that if Russia did not comply with a ceasefire inside the 50-day timeframe, the U.S. would impose secondary tariffs of as much as 100% on items offered by nations that proceed to do enterprise with Russia. That may have meant a deal agreed by across the finish of August.

However Mr. Trump instructed reporters on Monday, as he sat down with Starmer, that he was “going to make a brand new deadline of about 10 or 12 days from at the moment.”

“There is no purpose in ready,” Mr. Trump mentioned. “We simply do not see any progress being made.”

“I’ve spoken to President Putin lots, I’ve gotten together with him very nicely,” Mr. Trump mentioned earlier, earlier than sitting down with Starmer.

However he lamented that the Russian chief, “goes out and begins launching rockets into some metropolis, like Kyiv, and kills lots of people in a nursing residence or no matter, you may have our bodies mendacity everywhere in the avenue.”

Mr. Trump mentioned he was “very dissatisfied in Putin,” including: “I’ll scale back that fifty days that I gave him to a lesser quantity, as a result of I believe I already know the reply what is going on to occur.”

Russia rejected the deadline when the White Home first introduced it, calling it “unacceptable.”

“I am not so concerned about speaking anymore,” Mr. Trump mentioned of Putin, explaining that he and Putin could have a pleasant dialog, after which the next day, the Russians killed extra Ukrainians. 

Seated alongside Starmer, Mr. Trump additionally addressed the state of affairs in Gaza, saying the U.S. might be offering meals to the folks of Gaza and dealing to get rid of obstacles to humanitarian help. 

“A few of these youngsters are, that is actual hunger stuff,” Mr. Trump mentioned Monday. “I see it. And you’ll’t pretend that. So we’ll be much more concerned.” 

Whereas ostensibly a personal journey, marked by a number of rounds of golf on his personal luxurious programs in Scotland, Mr. Trump has additionally carried out enterprise – together with nailing down a long-sought-after U.S.-European Union commerce settlement.

After assembly for simply over one hour with EU chief Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday, Mr. Trump emerged to say, “We have now excellent news. We have reached a deal.”

When thought of as a mixed financial system, the EU bloc is the second largest on this planet behind the U.S. Together with items and companies, U.S.-EU commerce is value about $2 trillion per yr. 

“I believe it is nice that we made a deal at the moment, as a substitute of taking part in video games,” Mr. Trump mentioned of the framework commerce settlement. “I believe it is the largest deal ever made.”

“It is a massive deal, it is an enormous deal,” agreed Von der Leyen. “It would deliver stability. It would deliver predictability.”

Mr. Trump’s assembly with Starmer can also be bearing on commerce, although the U.S. and the U.Okay. already agreed on a framework commerce deal final month. Starmer has made it clear he desires to maintain pushing Mr. Trump to additional ease tariffs on British metal and different imports as the main points of the settlement are hashed out.

Mr. Trump mentioned his assembly with Starmer would provide an opportunity to have a good time the U.S.-U.Okay. settlement, together with the brand new EU deal.

Most EU member nations’ governments voiced help for that settlement on Monday, although a few of them unenthusiastically – and the French Prime Minister even took a jab on the bloc, accusing it of “submission” to Mr. Trump.

Mr. Trump mentioned the tariff charge for the EU’s 27 member nations can be 15% for many imports, together with automobiles. The EU, in the meantime, agreed to buy U.S. navy {hardware}, $750 billion of American power, and to extend its collective funding within the U.S. by $600 billion.

There was excellent news for U.S. corporations that promote merchandise into the EU market, too, as Mr. Trump introduced that each one 27 EU nations “might be opened as much as commerce with the US at zero tariff.”

The settlement was made at Mr. Trump’s luxurious golf resort in Turnberry, on the Scottish coast, the place the president spent the weekend teeing off.

The deal avoids a trans-Atlantic commerce warfare that would have unfolded on Friday, when Mr. Trump had threatened to impose a blanket 30% tariff on all items imported from the EU, which had vowed to retaliate.

That deadline stays in place for nations which have but to make a take care of the U.S., together with Mexico, Canada, and most consequentially, China. On Monday, Mr. Trump mentioned tariffs for nations that do not attain a take care of the U.S. might be “someplace within the 15% to twenty% vary,” which differs from the 15% to 50% vary he floated final week. 

Commerce talks between Beijing and Washington had been happening Monday in Stockholm, and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick mentioned in interviews over the weekend that the Aug. 1 deadline for offers to be reached wasn’t versatile.

“No extensions, no extra grace durations. August 1, the tariffs are set. They will go into place. Customs will begin accumulating the cash, and off we go,” Lutnick mentioned.