President Donald Trump, greeting British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Scotland, expressed frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin and said he would reduce the 50-day timeline he gave Russia to agree to a peace deal with Ukraine.
“I would have said five times we would have had a deal. I’ve spoken to President Putin a lot. I always got along with him very well … 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,” Trump said.
Donald Trump and Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer speak with members of the media prior to a bilateral meeting at the Trump Turnberry Golf Courses, in Turnberry south west Scotland on July 28, 2025.
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“I’m disappointed in President Putin, very disappointed in him,” Trump continued. “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 what’s going to happen.”
It was on July 14 that Trump threatened severe tariffs on Russia if there was no ceasefire agreement within 50 days. Trump on Monday didn’t say how much he’d reduce the timeline.
