Trump’s not playing games. In April 2025, he publicly called out Putin’s missile attacks on Kyiv, telling him straight up: “Stop. 5,000 soldiers a week are dying. Get the peace deal DONE.” No fluff.
Then in May, Trump got Putin on the phone for two hours. Everyone expected him to drop the hammer — but instead, no real pressure, no ceasefire demand. Analysts said the talk was basically worthless.
Fast forward to June — the U.S. Senate steps up. They back Trump with hardcore sanctions: 500% tariffs on any country buying Russian energy. That’s a direct shot at China and India. The message? Play ball or pay big.
By mid-July, Trump gets serious. He announces major weapons boosts to Europe so Ukraine can hit harder. Patriot missiles included. He also gives Putin a deadline: make peace by September or face economic destruction.
Then on July 28, Trump tightens the screws even more — Russia’s got 10–12 days to back off. Zelensky’s all in. Russia? They “take note” but keep pushing. The clock’s ticking. Trump’s not bluffing — he’s making moves.
00:00Trump Gives Russia Less Than Two Weeks to End Its War in Ukraine
00:09President Trump said he had decided to shorten a 50-day deadline he had given Russia to end the conflict or face punishing new sanctions.
00:18President Trump said on Monday that he was disappointed with President Vladimir V Putin of Russia over the war in Ukraine, and said he would give Moscow 10-12 days to end the conflict or face a new round of sanctions.
00:31Mr Trump had warned the Kremlin earlier this month that the United States would impose very severe tariffs if Russia did not agree to a peace deal within 50 days, but on Monday he said he would bring that deadline forward.
00:44I'm going to make a new deadline of about 10 or 12 days from today, there's no reason in waiting, Mr. Trump told reporters in Scotland during a meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain.
00:55We just don't see any progress being made.
00:58If the Kremlin does not comply, it would be sanctions and maybe tariffs, secondary tariffs, he said, adding that he did not want to do that to the Russian people.
01:08Mr Trump has repeatedly threatened to punish Russia over its escalating attacks in Ukraine but so far has not followed through.
01:15An imposition of new tariffs would be a shift for the White House, which excluded Russia from the round it imposed on a host of countries in April,
01:23and the threat of secondary tariffs on any country that trades with Russia could threaten economic partners, notably China and India, that import Russian oil and gas.
01:38Now we jump to this. Russia is responding to President Trump's new deadline of 10 or 12 days to reach a ceasefire agreement with Ukraine.
01:47While Ukraine welcomes the new timeline, Moscow is demanding Ukraine make concessions.
01:52A deadly Russian airstrike overnight killed at least 17 people and wounded 42 others.
01:57High-explosive aerial glide bombs damaged surrounding homes.
02:01President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned Russia's deliberate strike, accusing Moscow of killing Ukrainians when a ceasefire, quote, could have long been in place.
02:11CBS News senior national security correspondent Charlie Daggeter joins us now from the Pentagon with more on this.
02:17Charlie, good morning to you. So yesterday we heard President Trump say that he already knows the answer that Russian President Putin will give him on this new deadline.
02:27Will sanctions or new sanctions possibly make a difference from where you sit?
02:32Hey, good morning, Errol. You know, it's really down to the Russians, and so far the Russian response has been muted.
02:38Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said today Moscow had taken note of the new deadline and Russia remained committed to the peace process, that's what he said, to resolve the conflict around Ukraine and secure our interests.
02:51It is important to note, because you mentioned it there, the Russians have not budged from their original demands that Ukraine withdraw all troops from those contentious regions in eastern Ukraine that Russia has claimed its own,
03:04abandon any bid to join NATO, limit the size of its military, which is a red line right there, ban foreign troops on its own, even to officially recognize Russia as an official language.
03:15It's essentially the same conditions that Putin was seeking from the start of the war.
03:19Now, in terms of economic pressure, even if those secondary tariffs were to be effectively imposed, punishing countries like China and India for buying cheap Russian oil,
03:29it wouldn't immediately impact Russia's war chest in the short term.
03:34Just an indicator, when the news of the new deadline broke, Russia's stock exchange dipped slightly, but not much, and Putin is gaining the upper hand on the battlefield.
03:45And the time, the delay, is that really what Russia needs or is trying to get out of this appearance of discussions?
03:54Because you had three rounds of ceasefire talks that did result in the exchange of thousands of prisoners of war.
04:00But the ceasefire, despite a push from President Trump, has been elusive.
04:04So is Russia just running down the clock?
04:06If so, what can the U.S. even do about that?
04:09Yeah.
04:10OK, so our colleagues in Ukraine have been sharing daily updates with me and they report substantial territorial gains by the Russians on multiple fronts.
04:17In fact, by some measure, the largest gains this year.
04:20And as you point out, this is twofold.
04:22Yes, they are very slowly accomplishing their goal to occupy territory like in the Donetsk region.
04:28But the fact is, it's the same as it's been from the beginning.
04:36Ukraine just cannot fight toe to toe with the Russian forces, man for man.
04:41I've been there to witness that and add to the fact that Russia has been setting pretty much nightly records of drone and missile strikes, not only along the battlefield, but targeting cities like Kyiv.
04:52That exhausts Ukraine's air defenses.
04:54On Sunday, it even triggered a NATO response in neighboring Poland, where Swedish fighter jets have scrambled for the first time since becoming NATO's newest member.
05:03So if anything, that original 50 day deadline intensified the attacks.
05:09Remarkable updates from our teams there in Ukraine.
05:12Charlie, always insightful to chat with you.
05:14Thank you very much.
05:15That's Charlie.
05:16Thanks, Errol.
05:17When Mr. Trump returned to the White House in January, he said he could bring peace to Ukraine immediately.
05:30But the war has continued with Russian forces on the offensive in eastern and northern Ukraine.
05:36Initially, Mr. Trump appeared to side with Mr. Putin, repeatedly criticizing President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine and suspending supplies of U.S. weapons to Kyiv.
05:46But in April, Ukraine signed a deal with the United States to share its mineral reserves.
05:51And in recent weeks, as Russian missiles rained down on Ukrainian cities, Mr. Trump seemed to reverse course, partly in response to urging by allies in Europe and from NATO.
06:01He promised to renew the supply of weapons to Ukraine and toughened his language toward Mr. Putin.
06:07Ukrainian officials were quick to thank Mr. Trump for shortening the deadline.
06:12Andrei Yermak, chief of staff for Mr. Zelenskyy, said in a post on social media that Mr. Trump's comments showed he was committed to peace through strength.
06:25President Putin, President Putin, President Putin, President Putin, is launching rockets into some city like Kyiv and kills a lot of people in a nursing home or whatever.
06:35You have bodies lying all over the street.
06:37And I say, that's not the way to do it.
06:40So we'll see what happens with that.
06:42I'm very disappointed.
06:43I'm disappointed in President Putin.
06:46Very disappointed in him.
06:48So we're going to have to look.
06:49And I'm going to reduce that 50 days that I gave him to a lesser number because I think I already know the answer what's going to happen.
07:04For its part, Russia had largely shrugged off Mr. Trump's previous 50-day deadline, noting that past timeframes set by Mr. Trump or his team had expired with little consequence.
07:15Mr. Putin has been determined to press what he sees as a growing battlefield advantage in the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which Russia launched more than three years ago.
07:24The Russian leader has made it clear that he views it as out of the question to halt the fighting without extensive concessions by Ukraine, people close to the Kremlin have told the New York Times.
07:34But Mr. Trump's new deadline underscored his growing frustration with Mr. Putin's resistance to compromise, even as the Kremlin has continued to shower the American president with compliments.
07:46Last week, Sergey V. Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, praised the Trump administration for its reasonable approach to Ukraine and its readiness for dialogue.
07:56On Monday, however, Dmitry A. Medvedev, the former Russian president and deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, called Mr. Trump's deadline an ultimatum and said it was a threat and a step towards war between Russia and the United States.
08:11It was not clear whether Mr. Medvedev's comment, made in a post on social media, reflected the Kremlin's thinking.
08:18In the past, US officials have shrugged at nuclear threats that he has made.
08:23On Monday, Mr. Trump expressed disappointment with Mr. Putin and the Kremlin's failure to agree to a cease-fire.
08:30Russia could be so rich right now, Mr. Trump said.
08:34Instead, they spend all their money on war, they spend everything on war and killing people.
08:40That doesn't make sense to me, he said, adding of Mr. Putin, I thought he would want to end this thing quickly.
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