President Trump appeared to give Vladimir Putin a hard deadline for ending the war in Ukraine — as the Kremlin revealed Thursday the Russian leader has no plans to pow wow with the commander-in-chief.
“We’re going to find out whether or not he’s tapping us along or not, and if he is, we’ll respond a little bit differently, but it will take about a week and a half to two weeks,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Wednesday.
Asked whether Putin wanted to end the war, Trump said, “I can’t tell you that, but I’ll let you know in about two weeks.”
Trump — who earlier warned that the Russian prez was “playing with fire” by refusing to engage in cease-fire talks — added that he was “very disappointed” with Moscow’s recent barrage of missile and drone attacks.
“When I see rockets being shot into cities, that’s no good. We aren’t going to allow it,” he said.
Still, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday that Putin has no plans to speak to Trump — as his forces continued to make gains on the battlefield.
It comes as Russia’s defense ministry said its forces had captured three more villages in eastern Ukraine on Thursday.