President Trump continues to issue 'ultimatum' of only 10 days to end Ukraine conflict

According to RIA Novosti, US President Donald Trump said on July 29 that there are only 10 days to reach a ceasefire agreement in Ukraine.

“10 days from today,” President Trump stressed.

In addition, in case the negotiations fail, Mr. Trump plans to impose import tariffs, sanctions or “something else”. At the same time, the US leader is not sure that the restrictions will affect Russia.

The US President said he was not concerned about the possible reaction of the oil market to the possibility of imposing restrictions on Moscow, since the US has a lot of oil reserves and opportunities to increase production.

Mr Trump added that he had not received any response from Moscow to his call for a ceasefire in Ukraine in the previous 10-12 days, which the US leader called “unfortunate”.

President Donald Trump said his conversations with President Putin “went very well.” According to the White House boss, he was sure three or four times that an agreement on Ukraine had been reached.

In another development, Thomas Graham, former assistant to former US President George Bush on Russia and Eurasia, said it was time for Russia to declare victory in the context of achieving most of its goals.

“Russia has achieved most of its goals. It is time to declare victory,” Graham said in a column for The National Interest.

According to Mr. Graham, Ukraine is unlikely to join NATO in the near future. The United States and its European allies have demonstrated strongly that they will not risk war with Russia to defend Ukraine, and they will not assume such obligations by accepting Ukraine into the alliance.