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“I’m disappointed in President Putin, because I thought we would have had a deal two months ago,” President Trump said.
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Trump Gives Russia 50 Days to Make Peace With Ukraine
President Trump, expressing frustration over feeling dragged along by President Vladimir V. Putin in peace talks, threatened Russia with “very severe tariffs” unless a deal is reached with Ukraine in 50 days.
“We’re very, very unhappy with them and we’re going to be doing very severe tariffs if we don’t have a deal in 50 days. Tariffs at about 100 percent. You’d call them secondary tariffs. You know what that means. And I’m disappointed in President Putin because I thought we would have had a deal two months ago. But it doesn’t seem to get there. We’ve made a deal today where we’re going to be sending them weapons and they’re going to be paying for them.” “This is really big. This is really big. You called me on Thursday that you had taken a decision. And the decision is that you want Ukraine what it needs to have to maintain, to be able to defend itself against Russia, but you do want the Europeans to pay for it, which is totally logical.”
July 14, 2025Updated 3:07 p.m. ET
President Trump said he would help Europe speed more weapons to Ukraine and warned Russia that if it did not agree to a peace deal within 50 days, he would impose a new round of punishing sanctions.
Speaking from the Oval Office, where he met with NATO’s secretary general, Mark Rutte, Mr. Trump said the weapons would be “quickly distributed to the battlefield.” He also threatened to impose secondary sanctions, which are penalties imposed on other countries or parties that trade with nations under sanctions.
“I’m disappointed in President Putin, because I thought we would have had a deal two months ago, but it doesn’t seem to get there,” Mr. Trump said.
“It’s just the way it is,” he added. “I hope we don’t have to do it.”
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Mr. Trump, who has dodged questions about whether he thought President Vladimir V. Putin has sought to prolong the war, was quick to say that he didn’t believe he was being played by the Russian leader. Russia, which launched an unprovoked invasion on Ukraine in 2022, has escalated its attacks on Ukraine amid peace negotiations.
“My conversations with him are very pleasant, and then the missiles go off at night,” said Mr. Trump, who indicated that Mr. Putin had repeatedly backed out of deals to bring an end to the three-year war.
