Putin ‘disappoints’ Trump, cutting 50-day deadline for half of Ukraine attack
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president Donald Trump On Monday, he said he was “very disappointed” with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and that he would “reduce” the original 50-day deadline set earlier this month to “10-12 days from today.”
“From today we plan to have a new deadline of about 10, 10 and 12th,” Trump told reporters in Scotland. “There’s no reason to wait. It was 50 days. I wanted to be generous, but I’m not making any progress.”
Trump originally set a 50-day deadline for Putin to reach the peace deal on July 14th.
President Donald Trump will meet his wife, Victoria Starmer, at Scotland’s Turnberry Golf Club, on Monday, July 28th, 2025. (Furlong/pool photo via AP)
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“I’m disappointed in Putin, but I’m very disappointed in him,” Trump said Monday. “So we’ll have to look and I’m going to shorten the 50 days that gave him a smaller number, because I think I already know the answer.”
Trump’s comments came in a few hours later Russia Not only did it unleash more than 300 drones and missiles across Ukraine, urging Kiev to compete for the air force, but Polish operating orders also said it had deployed fighter jets in the air.
“We’d said we had five deals. We talked a lot with President Putin,” Trump told reporters. Putin There are very few results. “But we had an argument… we thought it had settled down many times.
“And then Putin goes outside and sets up rockets in cities like Kiev, killing a lot of people in nursing homes and so on. “And I say, that’s not a way to do that. So we’ll see what happens.”
No death has been confirmed yet from the hit early morning strike Capital Kyiv It will injure at least five people, including a two-year-old girl. Other strikes targeted the Kumelnitsky and Kirovolad regions west of Kiev to the south of Kiev.
Police officers at the location of a Russian air attack that crashed into a residential building in Kiev, Ukraine on Thursday, July 10th, 2025. (Andrew Kravchenko/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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No additional victims have been reported.
The Ukrainian Air Force reported 324 Shahed type on Monday Attack and decoy drone It was fired along with four KH-101 cruise missiles and three KH-47M2 Kinzhal Aero Ballistic missiles.
The Ukrainian air defense system reportedly fired down 309 UAVs and two KH-101 cruise missiles.
Two cruise missiles and 15 drones reached the target at three locations, but the three Kinzhal missiles apparently failed to reach the intended target.
On May 12, 2024, during the military exercise, Ukrainian military personnel from the 21st separate mechanized brigade fires a leopard 2A6 tank during the Russian attack on Ukraine, near the frontlines of the Ukraine region. (Reuters/valentyn ogirenko/file photo)
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“Our unmanned defenses have had strong consequences against the ‘Shahed’. Dozens of Russian drones were shot down. Some missiles were also intercepted overnight,” said Ukrainian President. Volodymyr Zelenskyy I said in X’s message. “Unfortunately, there were hits, not all of them.
“However, we are constantly strengthening the Ukrainian air shield and it is important to maintain a clear understanding of how our partners can help,” he added. “In stages, we are filling the financing gap for drone production. We will hold a new discussion with our partners on this task later this week.”