President Donald Trump said on Monday that he was “very disappointed” in Russian President Vladimir Putin and said that he will reduce the original deadline of 50 days that he has set earlier this month to 10-12 days, “will reduce.
“I’m going to create a new deadline, from about 10, 10 or 12 days from today,” Trump said reporters from Scotland. “There is no reason to wait. It was 50 days. I wanted to be generous, but we just don’t see any progress made.”
Trump originally stated a 50-day deadline before Putin to reach a peace agreement on July 14, while he raised the NATO-Secretary General Mark Rutte in Washington, DC, by raising the deadline to 12 days from Monday, the overall end date in two.
President Donald Trump, center, meets British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Left, and his wife Victoria Starmer at Trump Turnberry Golf Club on Monday, July 28, 2025 in Turnberry, Scotland. (Furlong/Pool -Photo via AP)
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“I am not so interested in talking,” Trump told reporters while he was sitting next to British Prime Minister Kier Starmer after he said that Moscow and Washington “could close a deal” prior to the secondary sanctions that are now being implemented in less than two weeks.
“He talks – we have such nice conversations, such a respectful and fun conversation. And then people die the next night,” Trump added on Monday.
Trump told reporters earlier in the day that he was “very disappointed” in Putin
“So we will have to look, and I will reduce those 50 days that I have given him a smaller number, because I think I already know the answer.”
Trump’s comments came only a few hours after Russia had released more than 300 drones and rockets in Ukraine, so that not only Kiev to scramble his air force, but the operational command of Poland said it had also made fighter jets to heaven.
“I would have said five times that we would have had a deal. I spoke a lot with President Putin,” Trump said reporters, following his earlier frustration that speaking with Putin has yielded little to no results. “But we had discussions … We thought we had arranged that many times.
“And then President Putin goes outside and so on, launching rockets in a city like Kyiv and kills many people in a nursing home or whatever. You have bodies that lie on the street,” Trump continued. “And I say, that’s not the way to do it. So we’ll see what happens.”
No deaths have yet been confirmed from the early morning strikes that hit the capital of Kyiv and at least five injured, including a 2-year-old girl. The other strikes were aimed at the Khmelnytskyi region west of Kyiv and the Kirovohrad region south of Kiev.
A police officer at the location of a Russian air raid that hit a residential building in Kiev, Ukraine on Thursday 10 July 2025. (Andrew Kravchenko/Bloomberg via Getty images)
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Extra victims have not been reported.
The Ukrainian Air Force reported on Monday that 324 attack by the Shahed Type and Decoy drones were fired together with four KH-101 cruise rockets and three KH-47m2 Kinzhal Aeroballistic missiles.
The anti-aircraft systems of Ukraine 309 UAVs and two KH-101 cruise missiles were reportedly shot.
Two of the cruise missiles and 15 drones touch goals at three locations, while three of the Kinzhal missiles apparently have not achieved their intended goals.
Ukrainian soldiers of the 21st separate mechanized brigade fire A leopard 2A6 tank during a military exercise, amidst the Russian attack on Ukraine, near a front line in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on 12 May 2024. (Reuters/ Valentyn Ogirenko/ File photo)
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“Our unmanned defenses yielded strong results against ‘Shahs’ – dozens of Russian drones were shot. Various rockets were also intercepted at night,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy in a message about X. “Unfortunately, not all – there were also hits.
“But we are constantly strengthening the Air Shield of Ukraine, and it is vital to maintain a clear understanding among partners of how they can help,” he added. “Step by step we close the financing gap for drone production and I will hold new conversations with partners with partners later this week.”
