Russian President Vladimir Putin still has to respond publicly to the 50-day Ultimatum president Donald Trump spent him, although a top official suggested on Tuesday that Moscow “couldn’t care”.
Deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council and former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev names X to express the first reaction of the Kremlin to the joint announcement by Trump and NATO -Secretary -General Mark Rutte that Putin has 50 days to end up his war in Ukraine.
President Donald Trump, Right, and Mark Rutte, Secretary -General of the Noord -Atlantic Convention Organization, shaking Hand during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on Monday, July 14, 2025. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty images)
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“Trump spent a theatrical ultimatum on the Kremlin. The world shivered and expected the consequences,” Medvedev said. “Wirligentent Europe was disappointed.
“Russia didn’t care,” he added.
Responses to Trump’s last frustration with Putin were mixed because Rutte defended the move as ‘logical’, although the top officials of the European Union suggested that the move was missing so far in the war.
“On the one hand, it is very positive that President Trump takes a strong attitude towards Russia. On the other hand, 50 days is a very long time when we see that they kill innocent citizens, also every day,” said the most important diplomat Kaja Kallas of Brussels reporters when the president’s announcement was asked.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and then Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev arrive at the Red Square Victory Day Parade on 9 May 2019 in Moscow. (Mikhail svetlov/getty images)
“It is clear that we all have to put more pressure on Russia so that they would also like peace,” she added. “It’s good that the Americans take the steps, and I hope they also give military help as Europeans give.”
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Kyiv Burgemeester Vitali Klitschko also doubted the effectiveness of the move and told the German news exit Ard that “I am happy with the wave of the US” “
“But on the other hand, I don’t understand why Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin gets 50 days,” he added, according to a translation by Ukrainian media, KYIV Independent.
“In 50 days, many more people could be killed in the capital and in Ukraine many more buildings can be damaged,” he said. “That’s why, why such a delay?”
Kyiv Burgemeester Vitali Klitschko keeps people away from a five -storey residential building that partially collapsed after a shelling in Kiev, Ukraine, on March 18, 2022. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images)
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Trump told reporters on Monday that he was frustrated by Putin’s lack of action when it came to stopping his war in Ukraine despite four separate occasions when the president thought that a deal had been reached with the Kremlin chef.
“I talk to him a lot about doing this thing, and I always hang up and say,” Well, that was a nice phone call, “and then rockets in Kyiv or another city are launched, and I would say” Strange, “said Trump, who tells his conversations with Putin.
“And then happens three or four times, you say, the conversation means nothing.”
