Trump gives Russia for 10 days to reach a high fire agreement with Ukraine, or face secondary sanctions

President Trump established on Tuesday a 10 -day deadline for Russia to reach a high fire agreement with Ukraine, or otherwise risks secondary sanctions, which would mean that the Kremlin would have to reach an agreement with Ukraine for Friday, August 8.

The president who saying In Scotland, on Monday, he was shortening his original 50 -day deadline for Russia to do the peace with Ukraine, he spoke with journalists about the deadline reviewed on Tuesday aboard Air Force One when he returned to the United States, Mr. Trump has been in Scotland during the last five days to negotiate trade agreements with European leaders and visit his two golf resources there.

“Ten days of today. Okay?” He said on the plane.

“And then you know, we are going to put rates and things, and I don’t know if it will affect Russia, because it obviously wants to maintain war,” added the president, apparently speaking of Russian President Vladimir Putin. “But we are going to put rates and the various things you put. It may or may not affect them, but it could.”

The United States and Ukraine have been pressing immediate fire to negotiate a lasting peace agreement. At the beginning of July, Mr. Trump said that if Russia does not agree with a high fire inside a 50 -day windowThe United States would impose secondary tariffs of up to 100% in goods sold by countries that do business with Russia.

Trump has expressed more and more frustration with Putin, questioning whether the Russian leader really wants to end the war with Ukraine. Trump described that he had a good phone call with the Russian leader, just to discover that the next day, Russia killed more Ukrainians.

“I always hang [and] Say: ‘Well, that was a good phone call’, “Trump said in early July.” And then the missiles are thrown into kyiv or in some other city, and I say: “That is strange.” And after that happens three or four times, you say, the talk means nothing. “

It is a change since the beginning of this year, when Trump said he thought Putin “wants peace.”

On Monday, Trump said he was “very disappointed” in Putin on the continuous bombing of Ukraine of Moscow, reducing Russia’s term for an agreement of 50 days to 10 or 12.

“There is no reason to wait,” Trump said Monday. “We just don’t see any progress.”

Tucker Reals and Weijia Jiang contributed to this report.

• Ukraine
• Cease-fire
• Policy
• Russia
• Trump administration
• Vladimir Putin