US President Donald Trump sets new deadline of “10 or 12 days” for Putin to agree to a Ukraine deal, and says he will make an official announcement “tonight or tomorrow”
Trump made the comments during a meeting at his Turnberry golf course in Scotland with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer
Two weeks ago, Trump threatened “very severe tariffs” on Russia’s trading partners “if we don’t have a deal in 50 days”
Trump now says “there’s no reason to wait” and he may impose sanctions and secondary tariffs.He later added: “I’ll announce it probably tonight or tomorrow, there’s no reason to wait. It would be sanctions and maybe tariffs, secondary tariffs.”
But Trump, who has offered spoken of his friendship with Putin, added: “I don’t want to do that to Russia. I love the Russian people, they’re great people.”
Trump also described the conflict as a “really bloody war” and says making a deal would be “common sense”.
“I think that eventually something’s going to happen,” he added.
“It should happen fast, so many people are dying.”
In his joint press conference with prime minister Keir Starmer, Trump said: “We’ve had discussions, you [Starmer] and I have had discussions we thought we had that [war] settled numerous times.
Later today, Trump will meet Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney.
