Trump’s 2-Week Deadline To Putin Is Now Over

Did he carry through on his threats, and what does it mean for the future?

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“A new deadline of about 10 or 12 days from today. There’s no reason waiting […] I want to be generous, but we just don’t see any progress being made.”

This is what Donald Trump, the president of the United States, said at the end of July.

He added.

“I’m disappointed in President Putin, very disappointed at him.”

As those 10 or 12 days passed, nothing happened. No punishment. No tough stance on Putin. Nothing.

Well, something did happen.

The Putin-Trump Summit in Alaska took place on the 15th of August, 2025.

This was supposed to solve all the problems.

It didn’t.

Rather, it got even worse, as Russia proceeded to carry out the heaviest drone attacks on Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, since the beginning of the war. On a day two weeks after the Alaska Summit, Russian airstrikes killed at least 23 people in Kyiv.

On the 21st of August, Trump had set another 2-week deadline to Putin.

“We will know within two weeks whether there will be peace in Ukraine. After that we will have…