4/8/2025–|Last update: 11:49 (Mecca time)
US President Donald Trump has anticipated the 10 -day deadline that he had previously set for his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to reach a ceasefire in Ukraine and announced on Sunday that his special envoy Steve Witakov will travel to Moscow this week.
“I think Witkeov may go to Russia on Wednesday or Thursday, adding that it was Russia that requested the meeting,” Trump told reporters before a trip to Washington yesterday evening.
When journalists asked Trump about the message he carried and destroyed to Moscow and whether there is anything that Russia could do to avoid sanctions, the US President replied, “Yes, an agreement was reached to stop people.”
Regarding the two nuclear submarines, which were ordered to publish them after a debate on the Internet with former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the US President said they are “now in the region.”
Trump did not specify whether the two submarines were working with nuclear payment or they were nuclear armed, nor did their location not reveal.
Stress and penalties
Nuclear threats come against the background of a final deadline set by Trump to Russia to take steps to cease fire in Ukraine or face unlimited new sanctions.
This will be a few days before the expiry of a 10 -day deadline that Trump had set it to Russian President Vladimir Putin to reach a ceasefire or a peace agreement with Ukraine.
Putin had met several times in Moscow, before Trump suddenly stopped to fix relations with the Kremlin.
In July, Trump threatened to impose “severe” definitions on Russia’s commercial partners if Moscow does not agree to a ceasefire within 50 days, with a final date set on September 2.
However, during a meeting with British Prime Minister Kiir Starmer last month, Trump said he would reduce the 50 days he granted to Putin “to a fewer”, saying that this number may be “10 or 12 days.”
Trump justified this step by saying that he was disappointed in the Russian leader, who was not able to reach a compromise. The Kremlin has always confirmed that it will not be pressured to conclude a deal.
Through his threats to customs tariffs, Trump wants to increase the weakening of the Kremlin’s economic base by exercising more pressure on Moscow’s main commercial partners such as China and India.
Despite the pressure of Washington, the Russian attack on Ukraine continues. Putin said last Friday that he wanted peace, but his demands to end his conquest for nearly 3 and a half years “have not changed”. These demands include Ukraine abandoning lands and ending its ambitions by joining NATO (NATO).
It is noteworthy that Trump began his second term with optimistic expectations of his ability to end the war in Ukraine, but he recently began to feel increasingly frustrated by Putin because of the continuous attacks on Ukrainian cities.
