The US President has grown frustrated of Vladimir Putin as he is refusing to strike a peace deal to end the war.
Trump issued a 50 day ultimatum to Russia to end the war, and then this week the US President gave Moscow 10 days.
Trump said this week reduced the timeline as he said he sees “no reason to wait” and he is “not interested in talking” with Putin.
On Monday Trump said, “We thought we had that settled numerous times, and then President (Vladimir) Putin goes out and starts launching rockets into some city like Kyiv and kills a lot of people in a nursing home or whatever.”
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So we are going to have to look, and I am going to reduce that 50 days that I gave him to a lesser number because I think I already know the answer — what is going to happen.
The Kyiv Independent reported, the Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded to the US President saying, “We have been living under a large number of sanctions for quite some time — our economy operates under heavy restrictions, so naturally, we have developed a certain immunity to it.”
The deputy chair of Russia’s security council Dmitry Medvedev said, “(Donald) Trump’s playing the ultimatum game with Russia: 50 days or 10… He should remember two things: One, Russia is not Israel or even Iran.
“Two, each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war.
“Not between Russia and Ukraine, but with his own country. Do not go down the Sleepy Joe road!”
The Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said, “No threat from anyone can be beneficial to the process of normalization.
“It is a law of nature — if there are threats, how can they possibly foster normalization? If normalization is to take place, then threats should naturally recede as mere remnants of the past.”
An unprecedented number of sanctions and various other illegitimate restrictions have already been imposed against Russia and our international partners. At this point, threats of new restrictions have essentially become routine.
