The deadline of the Friday of President Donald Trump has reached Vladimir Putin de Russia to accept a high fire with Ukraine or face “secondary sanctions” against countries that buy oil from Russia.
But uncertainty remains in terms of whether the United States will arrive in Moscow with new economic sanctions amid the conversation of a possible bilateral meeting between Trump and Putin soon.
On Thursday, Trump was asked directly if his deadline on August 8 for Putin to make the consequences of peace or face still apply.
“He will depend on him,” the president replied. “Let’s see what you have to say. You will depend on it. Very disappointed.”
The White House is pressing a trilateral summit between Trump, Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, although Trump said that Putin’s meeting with Zelenskyy was not a condition for him and Putin to meet.
“They would like to meet with me and I will do everything possible to stop the murder,” Trump said Thursday.
Donald Trump and the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, speak during the family photo session at the APEC summit in Danang, Vietnam, November 11, 2017.
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Trump, who once said that he could end the Russia-Ukraine war in his first 24 hours in office and promoted his personal relationship with Putin, has expressed a growing frustration with the Russian leader.
In mid -July, Trump said he was giving Putin a 50 -day ultimatum to stop the fight. Then he climbed the 10 -day timeline, citing his disappointment with Putin.
“I want to be generous, but we just don’t see any progress,” Trump said at that time. “I’m not so interested in talking. He speaks, we have such pleasant conversations, such respectful and pleasant conversations, and then people die the next night in a – with a missile that goes to a city and hit.”
The tensions between the United States and Russia intensified last week when Trump announced that he was moving nuclear submarines in response to what he called “highly provocative statements” of the deputy president of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev.
Medvedev, also the former president of Russia, had sounded on the deadline of High Trump’s fire, writing on social networks that “every new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war.”
While Trump said that nuclear submarines would be transferred in response, he and the White House would not specify what capabilities the submarines or other questions that surround the announcement have.
And earlier this week, Trump indirectly increased the pressure on Russia by doubling its rate of rates against India on Russian oil imports in India.
