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DONALD Trump has slashed the 50-day deadline for Vladimir Putin to cut a peace deal down to just the end of next week.
Trump has slammed the tyrant – who has not taken Trump’s peace efforts seriously – saying he was “very disappointed” with him during a press conference with Sir Keir Starmer in Scotland today.
Trump said Putin’s new deadline had been reduced down to “10 to 12” days from today, which would be August 6 to 8.
The President is clearly fed up with Vlad’s unwillingness to cut a peace deal and his nightly blitzes that target and kill civilians.
He said: “I’m disappointed in President Putin, very disappointed in him.
“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.”
He later clarified saying: “I’m going to make a new deadline of about 10 or 12 days from today. There’s no reason in waiting, we just don’t see any progress being made.”
Trump said that the US would do secondary sanctions on Russia – slapping sanctions on those who buy oil from Moscow.
But that could all be avoided if Putin cuts a peace deal – which Trump thinks could still happen.
The new deadline will be announced tonight or tomorrow, with Trump saying “there’s no reason to wait”.
He said: “It [peace] should happen fast, so many people are dying.”
Trump also said he is not so interested in speaking to Putin anymore – due to the tyrant consistently bombing Ukraine after peace talks.
The deadline was set to end on September 5, but is now set to end a month earlier.
The Moscow stock market quickly dropped 1.2 per cent at the prospect of massive US sanctions on the economy.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry has said that the “language of ultimatums, blackmail, and threats” is unacceptable to Moscow and that it views the threat of new sanctions as mundane.
A fortnight ago, Trump vowed to slap brutal 100 percent tariffs on Russia if Moscow did not reach a peace agreement with Ukraine within 50 days.
He also agreed to send US weapons – compromising of “everything” in their arsenal – to Nato so they can distribute them to Kyiv.
The meeting with Mark Rutte marked a shift in US policy more towards backing Ukraine after Vlad did not take peace seriously.
Trump has made getting peace in Ukraine a priority and has talked to Putin directly as he has tried to get him to cut a deal.
But the tyrant has not moved away from his maximalist demands and will only sign a deal that leaves Ukraine defenceless.
Vlad has spent months talking up the prospect of peace, but appears to have alienated Trump after launching huge barrages at Ukrainian civilians.
The Kremlin responded to the deadline at the time saying: “We of course want to understand what is behind this statement – 50 days.
“It used to be 24 hours, it used to be 100 days, we have been through all of this and we really want to understand what motivates the President of the United States.”
Trump’s deadline slashing comes after Putin launched his latest blitz on Ukraine with Poland scrambling jets in response.
Eight people, including a two-year-old girl, were injured in the strikes with shrapnel wounds after one bomb hit an apartment building in the capital.
Volodymyr Zelenksy addressed the latest blitz saying “our sky defenders intercepted several hundred Russian attack drones”.
One person is fighting for their life in a critical condition, while three others were hospitalised.
Explosions were heard in Kyiv at about 10.30pm local time (8.30pm BST), about 15 minutes after air raid sirens went off.
Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that all of the people were residents of a multi-storey apartment building in the city’s Darnytskyi district on the left bank of the Dnipro River.
Trump reveals mission to end war and get aid to Palestinians
DONALD Trump has spoken of a mystery plan with Israel to end the war in Gaza and announced a mission to get aid to starving Palestinians.
The US President was pressed by British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on the US taking a bigger role in helping stop the growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
As the two leader’s convened at Trump’s Scottish golf course, Turnberry, Starmer was quick to insist that Gaza would be a key topic in their meeting, calling what’s occurring “a desperate situation”.
Trump then expressed empathy with people in the Palestinian enclave and said the US would work with other countries to provide more humanitarian assistance to its citizens, including food and sanitation.
The US President vowed to set up food centres across Gaza – insisting: “We want to get the children fed.”
He described the scenes as “terrible” – adding: “We have to help on a humanitarian basis.”You have a lot of starving people.
“We’re going to set up food centres, and we’re going to do it in conjunction with some very good people.
“We’re going to set up food centres where the people can walk in and no boundaries, we’re not going to have fences.”
Trump said the UK and other nations were joining the effort as the crisis deepened.
He also distanced himself from comments made by Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who insisted there was no starvation in Gaza.
Netanyahu had said on Sunday: “There is no policy of starvation in Gaza and there is no starvation in Gaza.”
Asked if he agreed with the Israeli PM, Trump said: “I don’t know. I mean, based on television, I would say not, particularly because those children look very hungry.”
He went on to say that Israel has a lot of responsibility for what’s happening, but said that the country is hampered by considerations of the remaining hostages it wants to see kept alive and freed.
Trump said the Hamas militant group had become difficult to deal with in recent days, but he was talking with Netanyahu about “various plans” to free hostages still being held.
Trump said: “We’ve as you know given a lot of money to Gaza for food and everything else.
“A lot of that money is stolen by Hamas and a lot of the food is stolen.
“The whole place is a mess. It’ll get straightened out… Food and safety right now. Hamas did a horrible thing and they’ve paid a big price.”
The President said the priority was getting food to those who were starving and that he was in discussions with Israeli PM.
He added: “But I always said when you get down to the final 20 they won’t release them, because that’s like their shield. Very unfair.
“So something’s going to have to be done. And they were really unwilling to talk.”
