President Donald Trump announced that he is reducing the amount of time Russia has to agree to a cease-fire in Ukraine, moving his earlier 50-day deadline down to roughly 10 to 12 days from today.
Trump initially issued the 50-day ultimatum on July 14 after failing to reach a peace deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The new, shortened timeline follows a weekend of heavy Russian drone and missile strikes across Ukraine that also triggered NATO air defense responses.
“There’s no reason for waiting,” Trump told reporters while visiting Scotland. “It was 50 days. I wanted to be generous, but we just don’t see any progress being made.”
Trump said that Putin’s continued attacks—including long-range strikes hitting civilian areas—left him “very disappointed” and convinced that a faster deadline is necessary. “We thought we had that settled numerous times,” Trump said, “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.”
The president added that his administration would formally issue the new deadline “tonight or tomorrow.” If Russia does not agree to a cease-fire by that point, Trump warned, the United States will impose harsher economic measures, including 100 percent tariffs on all Russian exports and secondary sanctions targeting countries that continue to do business with Moscow.
Sunday night’s Russian barrage included 324 drones and seven missiles, according to Ukraine’s air force. Most were intercepted, but eight civilians were injured in Kyiv when debris struck an apartment building. No fatalities have been reported.
This move signals growing frustration from Trump as he tries to pressure Putin to end the war, while also balancing weapons transfers to Ukraine. Earlier this month, Trump reversed a Pentagon decision to halt U.S. missile and ammunition shipments to Kyiv, authorizing new arms sales totaling hundreds of millions of dollars.
In parallel, Trump has backed congressional efforts to increase sanctions on Russia and penalize nations buying its energy exports, though that legislation has stalled in the Senate.
