Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump sets Putin ‘two week’ peace deadline while Russia to send missiles to Belarus
Donald Trump appears to have set a two-week deadline for Russian president Vladimir Putin to prove he is serious about wanting to end the war in Ukraine.
On being asked in the Oval Office yesterday if he thought Mr Putin wanted to end the war, Mr Trump said: “I can’t tell you that, but I’ll let you know in about two weeks.”
“Within two weeks. We’re gonna find out whether or not (Putin is) tapping us along or not,” he told the reporters. “And if he is, we’ll respond a little bit differently.”
The US president has, however, previously set similar two-week deadlines, including on April 27 and May 19.
Putin aide Dmitry Medvedev responded to that by threatening the US with World War Three – but Moscow later proposed 2 June as a date to begin fresh talks with Ukraine in Istanbul.
Earlier this week, Mr Trump warned Mr Putin was “playing with fire” by resisting ceasefire talks while escalating drone and missile attacks.
It comes as Russia will send a number of Oreshnik missile systems to Belarus by the end of 2025, a Belarusian official said according to the Tass news agency.
The locations of the systems have been “finalised”, said Alexander Volfovich, the secretary of Belarus’ Security Council.
