Putin has 10 days for Ukraine Peace Deal or Face Sanctions, warns Trump

President Donald Trump on Tuesday made threats he published one day before Russian President Vladimir Putin and said he had exactly 10 days to conclude a peace agreement or cope with sanctions.

“Ten days from today,” Trump told journalists on the Air Force One during his Scotland trip.

“Then you know that we are going to put prices and stuff,” continued the president. “And I don’t know if that will affect Russia because he wants, obviously, to continue the war.”

President Donald Trump told Press that he reduced the 50 -day grace period that he gave to Russian President Putin to conclude a peace agreement at a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the Trump Turnberry Golf race in Turnberry, Scotland on Monday, July 28, 2025. (Jacquelyn Martin / AP Photo)

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“But we are going to put prices and the different things you put in place, it can affect them or not, but it could,” added Trump.

Trump’s comments highlight a certain skepticism as to whether his threat of taking 100% prices and secondary prices on third -party nations that will buy Russian oil will do a lot to have an impact on Putin’s decision calculation with regard to his war goals in Ukraine.

Moscow American purchases are already considerably reduced due to the invasion of Ukraine by Putin, American imports from Russia totaling only $ 3 billion in 2024, down 34.2% compared to 2023, according to government data.

The figures would represent less than 1% of the total exports of Russia, but what could have an impact on the war efforts of Moscow is the effect of the tariffs targeting the 192 billion dollars that Russia took advantage of Foreign oil sales in 2024.

Brut SCF Surgut, owned by the first group of oil tankers in Russia Sovcomflot, transit the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Türkiye, April 4, 2024. (Yoruk Isik / Reuters)

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China and India are always the best Russian oil buyers, and it is very unlikely that they will be able to divert their oil needs towards other markets within 10 days.

It is not known how Trump will apply secondary sanctions against China and India, especially since commercial negotiations with the two nations remain in progress.

Despite the talks in Stockholm this week with the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and its Chinese counterparts, the United States has not yet strengthened an official trade agreement with China.

The United States had until August 12 to extend the price break, or see an increase of 145% on the prices of all Chinese products bought in the United States

Scott Bessent, secretary in the United States of the Treasury, during an audience of the House Ways and Means Committee in Washington, DC, United States, Wednesday, June 11, 2025. (Eric Lee / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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But with the last deadline of 10 days from Trump to Putin and, by extension, buyers of Russian oil, this date may have just been moved until August 8.

We still do not know how the additional threat of 100% secondary sanctions will have an impact on the president’s decision -making regarding trade with Beijing.